[haiku-development] Re: Defining more standard attributes

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:48:01 +0100

Jasse Jansson <jasse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> The only problem I can think of is there are likely some apps that 
> >> use BEOS:TYPE in queries.
> > Indeed, that could be a reason to keep the status quo in that 
> > regard.
> Is it much trouble/performance hit to detect such attempts and 
> setting/returning the SYSTEM:type value instead ???
> Some kind of compability layer.

Sure, that would be possible, I'm just not sure it's worth the trouble.

Bye,
   Axel.


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