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Re: operatingSystemVersionString replacement
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Re: operatingSystemVersionString replacement


  • Subject: Re: operatingSystemVersionString replacement
  • From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:21:35 +0700

On 25 Oct 2013, at 10:53, Maxthon Chan <email@hidden> wrote:

> You can use uname(3) (on sone other system it is listed as uname(2)) - that is the most classic UNIX way of telling a system from another.

This returns:
sysname = "Darwin"
machine = "x86_64"
release = "13.0.0"
version = "Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64"

Maybe there is something which gives me "10.9" or "10.8.5" or anything more Mac-like?


>
> On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:49, Gerriet M. Denkmann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The documentation tells me that NSProcessInfo operatingSystemVersionString "is human readable, localized, and is appropriate for displaying to the user. This string is not appropriate for parsing."
>>
>> Ok. So what do I use for parsing?
>>
>> like: if ( current_os_x_version < 10.9 ) then do something...
>>
>> Once there was Gestalt, but this is deprecated since 10.8.
>>


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