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Re: Delete Bug or Feature?


  • Subject: Re: Delete Bug or Feature?
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:08:33 +0000

On 12 Feb 2008, at 16:40, Doug Adams wrote:

I've always thought that "remove" would be a better command name in this situation than "delete". It is too similar to the Finder's delete command, which *does* move a file/alias to the Trash.


The Scripting Interface Guidelines agree with you: make and delete should be used to create/destroy objects completely, while add and remove should be used to add/remove existing objects to sub-groups. e.g. Compare Address Book, which uses add and remove to add/remove existing person objects to group objects. iTunes predates the SIG, however, and while its scripting interface is fairly extensive it does suffer a number of longstanding design quirks.

You should file bug reports and feature requests - as an authority on iTunes scripting, one would hope the iTunes engineers will give some weight to your input. Whether or not they can/should/will be acted on is ultimately going to depend on the amount of work involved to implement such changes, the amount of backwards-compatibility breakage that it'll cause for existing scripts, but hey, it's worth a shot.

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