Re: operatingSystemVersionString replacement
Re: operatingSystemVersionString replacement
- Subject: Re: operatingSystemVersionString replacement
- From: "Gary L. Wade" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:49:40 -0700
- Thread-topic: operatingSystemVersionString replacement
For any Apple people who care, there's now rdar://15320964 to help with
this conundrum. For anyone else, feel free to file your bugs.
--
Gary L. Wade
http://www.garywade.com/
On 10/25/2013 8:53 AM, "Sean McBride" <email@hidden> wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:02:23 -0700, Gary L. Wade said:
>
>>Not to say using the OS version number is right in your case, but when I
>>need a parseable OS version number without relying upon Gestalt, I get
>>the
>>ProductVersion key from /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
>>and parse that into an NSIndexPath, which works great with encapsulating
>>10.8.5, 10.9, 10.7.5.12, etc.
>
>I agree with others that NSAppKitVersionNumber and friends are usually
>preferable, but sometimes it is useful/required to get the actual numbers
>"10", "8", and "5" in a parseable/non-localized way. Parsing uname
>results is fragile. operatingSystemVersionString is localized. Assuming
>/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist will always be at that
>path is fragile. Can you even read it when sandboxed?
>
>Gestalt(), despite being deprecated, is the safest way:
>
> Gestalt (gestaltSystemVersionMajor, &major);
> Gestalt (gestaltSystemVersionMinor, &minor);
> Gestalt (gestaltSystemVersionBugFix, &fix);
>
>IMHO, it was deprecated prematurely, without a replacement for uses like
>this.
>
>Cheers,
>
>--
>____________________________________________________________
>Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
>Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
>Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
>
>
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