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Re: how to warn users of wrong system
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Re: how to warn users of wrong system


  • Subject: Re: how to warn users of wrong system
  • From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:27:08 +0100

On 14/10/03 10:08 am, Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden> wrote:

> Sadly, it isn't very robust. I set LSMinimumSystemVersion to "10.2.0" in my
> app's Info.plist and tried to launch it under 10.1.3. The icon bounced once
> in the Dock and then nothing happened -- specifically, no dialog.
>
> I was hoping this was a solution for the problem of how to fail gracefully
> under older systems when you use symbols that were first introduced in later
> systems. No dice.

Have you tried making your executable a shell script that invokes
/usr/bin/sw_vers and depending on the output execs the real executable or
some other executable displaying a graceful error?

I daresay you could use an AppleScript instead of a shell script :-)

Cheers,

Chris
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