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" <s...@rogue-research.com> 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 s...@rogue-research.com >Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com >Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
