On Apr 17, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Steve Mills <sjmi...@mac.com> wrote: > Sheesh. So Apple has been telling us for years to "go Cocoa!" and "go > 64-bit!", then they go and give us half-baked systems that are nowhere near > close to being replacements for what we had before. Seems like Apple should > take their own advice.
The deprecated part of Carbon is the High-Level Toolbox; that's what Apple referred to by telling developers to switch to Cocoa. The CarbonCore APIs are a supported part of the system and there are times when it makes sense to use them, for edge cases or for performance. (Finding a file at a random index in a huge directory is kind of an edge case, you have to admit.) Similarly, NSURLConnection doesn't do everything you can do with POSIX APIs (like UDP or Unix-domain sockets.) CoreAnimation doesn't replace OpenGL. Et cetera. NSFileManager has been steadily gaining capabilities over the years. I remember having to dive into <Files.h> a lot when writing for 10.2 or 10.3, but I haven't had to look at it in a long time. —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
