Re: NSCaledarDate's deprecation

2009-01-24 Thread Michael Ash
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Paul Bruneau wrote: > >> Why spend so much time and effort to remove some code that is going to >> keep running fine for years? > > > Because you don't know that. Stuff can change at any time and break your > ap

Re: NSCaledarDate's deprecation

2009-01-24 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Jan 24, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Paul Bruneau wrote: Why spend so much time and effort to remove some code that is going to keep running fine for years? Because you don't know that. Stuff can change at any time and break your application in unexpected ways in the future, though you do get a

Re: NSCaledarDate's deprecation

2009-01-24 Thread Paul Bruneau
Please excuse this possibly dumb question but here it is: Why spend so much time and effort to remove some code that is going to keep running fine for years? The class isn't even deprecated yet. It's in this weird "going to be deprecated" limbo. How many years does it take between when some

Re: NSCaledarDate's deprecation

2009-01-23 Thread Sean McBride
kvic...@pobox.com (kvic...@pobox.com) on 2009-01-22 5:52 PM said: >in anticipation of the deprecation of NSCaledarDate, i am in the >process of converting my app to use NSDate and friends. and while the >process is mostly straightforward and not all that difficult, it is >tedious. > >when i think

Re: NSCaledarDate's deprecation

2009-01-23 Thread kvic...@pobox.com
At 6:39 PM -0500 1/23/09, Andy Lee wrote: On Jan 23, 2009, at 2:45 PM, kvic...@pobox.com wrote: At Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:13:45 +, Benjamin Dobson wrote: On 22 Jan 2009, at 22:52:56, kvic...@pobox.com wrote: in anticipation of the deprecation of NSCaledarDate, i am in the process of conver

Re: NSCaledarDate's deprecation

2009-01-23 Thread Andy Lee
On Jan 23, 2009, at 2:45 PM, kvic...@pobox.com wrote: At Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:13:45 +, Benjamin Dobson wrote: On 22 Jan 2009, at 22:52:56, kvic...@pobox.com wrote: in anticipation of the deprecation of NSCaledarDate, i am in the process of converting my app to use NSDate and friends. an

Re: NSCaledarDate's deprecation

2009-01-23 Thread Keith Duncan
since NSCalendarDate is a subclass of NSDate, using an NSCalendarDate method on an NSDate object is perfectly legal at compile time This should raise a compiler warning. What you mean is that calling an NSDate method on an instance of NSCalendarDate is perfectly legal; however calling a me

Re: NSCaledarDate's deprecation

2009-01-23 Thread kvic...@pobox.com
At Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:13:45 +, Benjamin Dobson wrote: On 22 Jan 2009, at 22:52:56, kvic...@pobox.com wrote: in anticipation of the deprecation of NSCaledarDate, i am in the process of converting my app to use NSDate and friends. and while the process is mostly straightforward and not a

Re: NSCaledarDate's deprecation

2009-01-22 Thread Benjamin Dobson
On 22 Jan 2009, at 22:52:56, kvic...@pobox.com wrote: in anticipation of the deprecation of NSCaledarDate, i am in the process of converting my app to use NSDate and friends. and while the process is mostly straightforward and not all that difficult, it is tedious. when i think i'm done,

NSCaledarDate's deprecation

2009-01-22 Thread kvic...@pobox.com
in anticipation of the deprecation of NSCaledarDate, i am in the process of converting my app to use NSDate and friends. and while the process is mostly straightforward and not all that difficult, it is tedious. when i think i'm done, i'd like to be able to do a fresh build and if possible ha