Is there any other way of collection system information like
- OS version
- processor speed and architecture
- RAM
other than calling
system_profiler -xml > system.plist
This was just asked a few days ago on the darwin-userlevel mailing
list; search the archives for details. That poster wanted more info
than you list here, but the answer was that it would be more trouble
than it's worth to collect it manually.
Well, got it working :) ....based on this
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?GestaltAndCocoa
I'll write it up in a blog post soon.
In particular it was stated that determining the user-visible name
of the processor would require making your own lookup table, since
those names are based more on marketing than on explicit ID numbers.
Indeed ...but I might not need the marketing names. And I assume all
processor types that are returned are also defined in the header file.
Note that you don't have to make system_profiler write to a file.
You can call it with NSTask, attach an NSPipe to its stdout, and
read that with an NSFileHandle
Ah ...that's a good idea. But how would I init the NSDictionary from
it? There are only
dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:
dictionaryWithContentsOfURL:
that do parsing. Or am I missing something?
cheers
--
Torsten
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