On Jan 28, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
Having NSTimestampFormatter as a "symbol translating sub-class"
would ease the pain of transition for many.
Yeah, this is what I'm proposing as well ... I feel Pierre's pain
with not wanting to rewrite and maintain deprecated code, but I
fear WO becoming what everyone hates about Tapestry, which is that
it goes through huge breaking revisions every release. There is a
large base of legacy apps, and especially if there are relatively
straightforward deprecation routes, it would be better to not break
than to break, I think (this is obviously subject to a religious
debate, I suspect).
I have pretty strong feelings about this as well. One of things that
Apple has historically done very well is to make moving from one
version to another pretty painless. The old way still works, the new
way works better. The only painful migration I recall was from
Objective-C to Java and that was mostly language issues. The team
did a lot of work to make it as painless as possible. Difficulty in
moving between versions is going to have the opposite effect from
what is desired. People will avoid updating and more and more people
will be using older versions making it even more difficult to make
changes.
I'm especially wary of breaking changes that just break semantics
rather than syntax.
Yes, those can be hard to identify and fix.
In this case, it's breaking the interpretation of random strings
inside of WODs, which will make for a really annoying fix.
Alternatively, I suppose someone could write a conversion app to
convert all the old style into new style, but that only partially
addresses the issue.
Far better to have the class do this on the fly. It is the right
thing to do.
Chuck
--
Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their
overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific
problems.
http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected])
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
