Recently, I uploaded documentation for writing DBKit Adaptors on various ftp-sites. As just somebody asked me to mail him the documentation I think I should tell you the following: This documentation is not available any more (from me). Some days ago Margaret Chan asked me to remove these files. I did it, but wanted to hear the reasons. Here they are: ========================================================================== Just to clarify why I said what I did, is that I have lots of history that suggests that distributing private API is not a good thing. As many disclaimers as you give to people, they always come back and say "my application broke" when in fact we do change that API. That's why we try to ensure that only people who really, really, really need it get it, ie. when there is no work around. Furthermore, when we do change this private API we think that it is reasonable for us to let people who relied on it know that we are doing so, so they have time to change their apps. Finally, regardless of what your personal opinions are, you must realize that this is NeXT's position, and if you wish to get such documentation in the future, we would appreciate it if you did not distribute it widely. ========================================================================== I totally agree with Margaret, except in this special case. I think missing documentation for writing DBKit Adaptors is really a major bug (first you cannot write an adaptor, further my motivation for getting this docu is to get a deeper understanding of DBKit). On the other hand I think they just didn't finish DBKit, but 3.0 had to go out. So we can hopefully wait for 3.1 and a fully working and documented DBKit. Nevertheless if you want to receive a copy of these files, mail to NeXT (I hope you can convince them to give it to YOU). -- == Andreas == Wir entschuldigen uns fuer die Strapazen (Douglas Adams). NeXTmail accepted.