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[OM] Re: E3 firmware update AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

Subject: [OM] Re: E3 firmware update AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
From: Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:32:59 -0700
Jan Steinman wrote:
> I am an Apple  
> developer. I get a bi-monthly CD-ROM in the mail full of stuff like,  
> "This function is deprecated, and will quit working in the next major  
> release." Or even, "If you have to do 'A', do it this way, because  
> doing it the 'B' way is unsupported, and may stop working in the  
> future." 

  The problem is that a lot of the time, they just say "don't do X any 
more", but they don't provide a new way to do things. QDGetCursorData, 
for instance, is QuickDraw era, has been deprecated for heaven knows how 
long, but _there's nothing else that does that_, so we're stuck using 
it. (and no, it's not exactly what you'd call "documented"..)

  That said, when I reported a bug in it for Tiger, they not only said 
they'd fix it, they offered to FedEx a Mac system to me to verify that 
it was working with the particular internal build they were using at the 
time, so I can't complain about the levels of developer support.

  -- dan

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