Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote: > As of Snow Leopard, alias records are deprecated in favor of bookmark data, > but, again, it's probably overkill. (Both alias records and bookmark data > are more suitable if the reference is to be persisted for use by a later > process. Also, both can apply more robust searching heuristics to find an > appropriate file even if it isn't the original. For example, if the original > is deleted and replaced with a new file of the same name.)
Having missed the introduction of the new bookmark routines, and having not gotten any warnings in my code, I was a bit surprised to read that alias records are deprecated. From a quick scan, it looks like the bookmark methods are wrappers around the alias manager with (after about 20 years) an official mechanism for creating Finder alias files. G _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
