You shouldn't need the build number for anything. It's generally
useless information for developers.
And you can see from the huge amount of lazy developers that parsed
SystemVersion.plist incorrectly by how many apps fail on 10.4.10 or
report it as 10.4.1 (which not even gestalt will do if you use the
wrong, old selector). Things like the old Microsoft Silverlight
installer that refused to install on 10.4.10 because it said you
needed 10.4.7 or higher.
Ack, at 8/8/07, Gary L. Wade said:
What I've done is to use the Major, Minor, and BugFix Gestalt selectors
and only
consult the PList for the build number. If you get the version from
the PList,
you then have to parse that out if you need it as a numeric value.
-- Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Carbon troll/Always needs a hug
Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insanely Great People
It's either this, or imagining Phil Schiller in a thong.
