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Re: My app does not display its version in the finder
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Re: My app does not display its version in the finder


  • Subject: Re: My app does not display its version in the finder
  • From: j o a r <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:26:55 +0200


On 6 jun 2006, at 20.15, Matt Neuburg wrote:

It doesn't help, though, that in Tiger the behavior of these keys was
changed in such a way as to make it harder to do the very thing the OP wants
to do. The CFBundleGetInfoString used to have the version information
appended to it. Now Apple has removed the CFBundleGetInfoString from the
template, and recomends that you just use the CFBundleVersion, which shows
up in the About box but NOT in the Finder. In effect, Apple has suddenly
made it much harder for developers to make it easy (sorry about that phrase)
to learn what version an app is. I regard this as a terrible mistake, and
perhaps, indeed, a kind of security failure. I should not have to run an app
in order to learn its version; indeed, knowing an app's version is often a
criterion for deciding whether to run it. m.

I agree. I added a note about the problems with the difference between the recommendations, and how the Finder actually works, but in the end I stripped it out of the message I sent to the list.


I think the most constructive thing to say about this is that if you're not happy about how it works, or how it is documented - file bug reports / enhancement requests! And do it quickly - the Leopard is right around the corner!

j o a r


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