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Re: The best way to call Cocoa methods not implemented in previous versions of the SDK?
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Re: The best way to call Cocoa methods not implemented in previous versions of the SDK?


  • Subject: Re: The best way to call Cocoa methods not implemented in previous versions of the SDK?
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:41:41 -0700

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:34 PM, email@hidden
<email@hidden> wrote:
> On 6 Sep 2011, at 22:11, Kyle Sluder wrote:
>> Framework versions haven't been used since the OpenStep days.
> Really?
> It is still documented:

Lots of things are still documented that aren't used anymore. :) There
may have been a time since Mac OS X 10.0 that framework versions were
used, but I can't think of any examples. They are certainly not used
today.

>> The system frameworks often check the SDK version the application
>> they're running within was linked against.
>>
> Can otool extract the SDK version?

Don't think so, but I might be wrong.

I'm pretty sure the function that gets used for this is
CFGetExecutableLinkedLibraryVersion, implemented here:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-550/CFUtilities.c

--Kyle Sluder
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