On Sep 23, 2011, at 5:56 AM, Rainer Brockerhoff wrote: > Good point, Charles. On the other hand, I was in this exact situation some > years ago - not only having to list all apps, but also having to distinguish > which were Classic and which were not (and exclude command-line apps) - and > it turned out the UTI algorithm wasn't sufficient for that, so I had to my > own. > > In defense of UTIs, they were new at the time and the algorithm didn't cover > all those possibilities.... and now in Lion, with Classic deprecated for so > long, it probably no longer covers them all either. PowerPC-only apps may be > dropped out in 10.8, who knows.
In Lion, the types are all covered. The non-APPL classic types like APPE, cdev, etc. are in com.apple.deprecated-application-file, which is a subtype of com.apple.application. I see no reason for them to ever remove that from the type system, as it wouldn’t gain anything, and would make it no longer possible to put up a nice dialog box explaining to users why an old app won’t run if they try it. Charles_______________________________________________ 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
