I imagine that it is difficult to wade through that sort of stuff,
even if you do understand it ( :-)), and then to try to remember it ...
And I think that you mean "apprised", Jan.
Chris
On 1 Feb 2008, at 04:09, Jan Steinman wrote:
> FileMaker has been especially egregious about this. They routinely
> break with major releases of MacOS. I gave up on them when they forced
> me to upgrade to version 7 when 6 quit working -- a paid upgrade. I
> was a captive audience at the time, relying on FileMaker for my
> business. I've ported all that stuff to MySQL now.
>
> There are many degrees of compliance and compatibility. 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." They do a great job of keeping their developer community
> appraised of impending change.
>
> But the developer has to be interested enough and competent enough to
> be listening.
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