Re: Why are paths depracated in favor of NSURL?

FROM : Gregory Weston
DATE : Fri Feb 08 19:17:13 2008

Jerry Krinock wrote:

> Most of the recent API from Apple refer to files with NSURL instead of
> NSString paths.  All I get out of this is the pain of having to write
> a couple extra lines of code.  What are the advantages that I'm not
> appreciating?


I'm not sure if deprecated is the right word, but I'd suggest that 
URLs are preferred over simple paths because if you're going to 
restrict yourself to brittle string-based file references you might 
as well at least pick a form that's flexible and extensible. 
Something that can reference locations other than locally-mounted 
file systems, for example.