Yes deprecation uses up dev's time, but it keeps OS X nimble and able to be supported by a relatively small team of programmers.
The other option is to be like Windows which is extensively backward compatible for apps, but the OS is a mountain of legacy cruft. Cheers On 2012-06-17, at 02:28, mason k wrote: > Personally I find it annoying that Apple deprecated Carbon. The constant > deprecations create an annoying gerbil wheel which sucks up a lot of dev > cycles that could be spent on far more interesting things. > > Apple's shitastic backwards compatibility policies are one of the main > reasons I've stayed off of actually developing apps for my favorite platform. > It's a bag of hurt, to quote someone famous. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
