Thanks all! I won't touch it. /usr/bin/sw_vers is the way to go. On 9/22/05, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > > > On 22-sep-2005, at 5:26, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > >> The platform module has a way to map system names such as returned by > >> uname() to marketing names. It maps SunOS to Solaris, for example. But > >> it doesn't map Darwin to Mac OS X. I think I know how to map Darwin > >> version numbers to OS X version numbers: from > >> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ it is clear that OS X > >> 10.a.b corresponds to Darwin (a+4).b, except for OS X versions <= > >> 10.1. I'd be happy to write the code and add it to system_alias() in > >> platform.py. Is this a good idea? > > > > > > There's no good reason to assume that the mapping from kernel version > > to marketing version will stay the same in the future. The savest way > > to get the marketing version of the currently running OSX is to run / > > usr/sbin/sw_vers and parse its output. There might also be a public API > > for getting the same information. Py2app, and specifically the > > bdist_mpkg component of that, contains code to parse sw_vers output. > > I don't have access to Macs, so there nothing much I can say > about this. > > In general, it's always better to rely on system tools for > finding the marketing name of an OS than to try to come > up with a work-around. If gestalt() returns the proper name, > then this should be used. If sw_vers provides a more reliable > way to do this, parsing its output seems like a better idea.
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