Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 16, Issue 144
Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 16, Issue 144
- Subject: Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 16, Issue 144
- From: "Glenn L. Austin via Cocoa-dev" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:02:13 -0800
> On Nov 14, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>>>> Convert resources from ResEdit
>>> DUDE. This is what, 20 years overdue?
>
> Dude. Why would we change them before it was necessary? Don't fix it if
> it ain't broke. There were better things to work on in the past 20 years.
>
> We wrote code to go through each type of resource and convert them to XML.
> Then that turned out to be a huge PITA to maintain, so we revised it to tab
> text. Easy to revise in Excel and 10x faster to load.
>
> My question is, why on earth didn't Apple provide a conversion tool like
> that? It would have saved thousands of developers from having to write
> their own resource translators or do it by hand.
>
> Casey McDermott
> TurtleSoft.com
They did. It's called derez. It's still available on Catalina.
--
Glenn L. Austin, Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver <><
<http://www.austinsoft.com>
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