On Apr 4, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Gregory Weston wrote: > 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.
Sorry. I probably shouldn't have said "deprecated". Aliases are not officially deprecated, as far as I know. Perhaps "superseded" is a better word. Bookmarks are clearly the new Apple-preferred way of achieving what used to be done with aliases. > 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. Well, conceptually, bookmarks are a superset of alias records. However, I believe that they have separate representations. In particular, some of the documentation mentions that alias files created using the bookmark API contain both the bookmark data and the old-style alias record, separately. Also, bookmark data records some of the file properties so you can query them without having to resolve or access the original file. Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ 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
