On Oct 27, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
It's like using an outdated software package.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.
Well, there's two ways to look at that:
- If you wanted a workaround that could be used that same day, without waiting for an OS update, switching APIs was the only option
- They were preparing to deprecate PBCatSearch anyway; you just got advance notice
