[dnanian]

Having a new facility that does the same kind of thing cron does doesn't deprecate cron. As I said, there is nothing in cron's man pages that indicates cron is deprecated, and there's no such thing as 'implicit deprecation': something is either deprecated or it isn't. And, in this case, it isn't.

Rewriting things to use launchd rather than cron really doesn't make much sense unless we're bored and have nothing better to do. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be nice, just that it's not necessary (and most end users don't know anything about launchd either; it's not like it's less obscure than cron is).

For all AppleScript's flaws, it is also quite powerful. You can get a lot of done in a few statements... once you figure out what those statements need to be.

The error thing has been on the list for a while... it's just not high priority enough to rise to the top yet...