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Re: Question about Deprecated Methods
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Re: Question about Deprecated Methods


  • Subject: Re: Question about Deprecated Methods
  • From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 07:37:12 -0500

On Mar 27, 2004, at 12:14 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:

but frankly, I just continue to use selectedRowEnumerator. Having to
use the above construct every time you wanted to access the selected
item(s) in a table view would be a pain. And besides, can Apple really
remove those methods? They would break so much software by doing so
that it's not even silly. If they do, it will be a very, very long time
before they are able to do so. When I write an app that has 10.3 as the
minimum requirement, then and only then will I use these new methods.

Bad strategy, unless you fully expect that your software doesn't have a particularly long usable lifespan. The point of deprecating methods is to give fair warning that at some point in the future they _will_ go away, so that by the time that happens they won't be breaking any software that gets even cursory maintenance. Not today. Probably not with 10.4. But if you get caught scrambling to fix half a dozen programs in November 2005 you'll have only yourself to blame. And so will your users.

G
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