Re: A few questions about remove deprecated function calls

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:03:07AM +0800, Jjgod Jiang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to make some patches to eliminate deprecated function calls
> as many as possible, here are a few points:
> 
> 1. replace all Font Manager APIs with Apple Type Service APIs, it could
> be done quite safely.
> 
> 2. Completely eliminate the usage of FSSpec, use FSRef instead, since
> vim 7 only supports Mac OS X. According to File Manager Reference:
> 
>    A number of deprecated functions in the File Manager were inherited from
>    earlier versions of Mac OS and have been carried along to
> facilitate porting
>    legacy applications to Mac OS X. You should avoid using these deprecated
>    functions. In particular, you should avoid any function or data
> structure that
>    uses the FSSpec data type
> 
> This change may require us to remove Code Warrior Editor support, do
> you guys think it's acceptable, or is this piece of code still maintaining
> by some one else?
> 
> 3. replace all QuickDraw APIs with Quartz/Core Graphics equivalence.
> This change may not be that easy, I think we need to create a new branch
> for this if we really going to do so.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> - jjgod.

     I am not sure what "earlier versions" means.  Please make sure that
vim still compiles on OS X 10.2.  I think we have officially dropped
support for versions earlier than that.

      If you can maintain patches, rather than a separate development
branch, to experiment with Quartz/Core Graphics, I will continue to
compile experimental versions so that they can be widely tested.

HTH                                     --Benji Fisher