On 10/27/05 6:50 AM, David Duncan didst favor us with:
> On Oct 27, 2005, at 05:29 AM, Norio Ota wrote:
>
>> I was just wondering what "Deprecated" means?
>> When I compile files with 10.4u sdk, many functions are
>> "deprecated'. But my application works.
>>
>> Does the word mean that the functions may be used properly but
>> Apple no longer grantee their behaviors?
>> Or those functions are useless any more so that we may not use them?
>> Or Apple just disapproves us using those functions but we can use
>> them?
>> Or something else very important for developing software?
>
> Deprecated means that Apple no longer recommends the API/Technology
> and will not improve it further. They will maintain regressions in
> the technology as long as it is feasible, and not at the expense of
> newer functionality.
An example of this is QuickDraw. QD continues to be supported, but using it
can incur a performance penalty in some cases. They may or may not fix a bug
in QuickDraw, but they will certainly not be investing any resources to
tweak its performance or improve it in other ways.
> It's like using an outdated software package. As
> long as it works, things are great, but if something breaks you will
> have to make a pretty good case with the software developer to get it
> fixed, and they still might tell you to just upgrade to the newest
> version instead.
This doesn't have to wait for something to be deprecated. Back when 10.1 was
the current release of Mac OS X I was having some problems with PBCatSearch,
so I file a bug or contacted DTS (can't remember which), and their response
was to use FSCatalogSearch instead.
Larry
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