Re: NSArchiver Deprecation

2009-12-18 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 18 Dec 2009, at 21:52, Dave Keck wrote: > > Why not use NSKeyedArchiver? Because it can handle only certain strings? Because it creates significanly bigger files? Kind regards, Gerriet. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com)

Re: NSArchiver Deprecation

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Somers
On Dec 18, 2009, at 6:33 AM, Dave Keck wrote: Why not use NSKeyedArchiver? It is extremely straight forward to archive certain non-object data types using NSArchiver and have it interoperate with Core Data and Cocoa bindings. It is extremely cumbersome to do otherwise. Elegant versus mes

Re: NSArchiver Deprecation

2009-12-18 Thread lbland
hi- On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Richard Somers wrote: > In the class reference and header file for NSArchiver and NSUnarchiver there > is not a single mention of depreciation for these two classes. The only place > that discusses depreciation is in the Archives and Serializations Programming

Re: NSArchiver Deprecation

2009-12-18 Thread Graham Cox
On 19/12/2009, at 12:30 AM, Richard Somers wrote: > How safe is it to use NSArchiver in a project? I'd say it's safe, because it will be needed for older file formats that can only be read by dearchiving using NSUnarchiver. It's not deprecated, it's just hat newer code is better off using NSK

Re: NSArchiver Deprecation

2009-12-18 Thread Dave Keck
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NSArchiver Deprecation

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Somers
In the class reference and header file for NSArchiver and NSUnarchiver there is not a single mention of depreciation for these two classes. The only place that discusses depreciation is in the Archives and Serializations Programming Guide for Cocoa. It would appear that there are still legi