Re: Gracefully failing on unsupported OS version
Re: Gracefully failing on unsupported OS version
- Subject: Re: Gracefully failing on unsupported OS version
- From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:15 -0500
On Monday, April 18, 2005, at 01:07PM, Shawn Erickson <email@hidden> wrote:
>On 10.2.x I believe it displayed a dialog saying it isn't supported on
>this version of OS... I believe in 10.3 it was broken but it may have
>been fixed.
Just tried this in Mac OS X Server 10.2.8. You get a pretty generic "The application could not launch because this system is incompatible." message.
Unfortunately in 10.3.9 it's still broken :( When you launch the app, it will bounce once or twice in the Dock and then just quit. You never see any message.
>If not I think folks should spam bug-reporter with a defect since I
>expect that many many 10.4 only applications will be out in the near
>future and not having a good message show in 10.3.x is... well not
>good.
Agreed. Assuming 10.4 did indeed fix this, the feature will only start to be useful if you then require 10.4.1 or later.
Hmm... If the software is ultimately being delivered in a .dmg, would it be possible to launch some script when the image is mounted? I've never done something like that. A shell script (or perhaps an AppleScript) could run a query and post a meaningful message.
--
Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)
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