On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:36 PM, Maxthon Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > Well I prefer uname() as it is 1) POSIX standard, cross-platform method
If you're already working around an OS bug then it should be acceptable to use OS-specific means to do so. > 2) more fine grained as it tells minor versions apart. (e.g. I can tell > Mavericks DP4 apart from Mavericks DP7 from Mavericks GM from App Store > release of Mavericks from Mavericks 10.9.1) If you look at the documentation of NSFoundationVersionNumber and NSAppKitVersionNumber you'll see that they change in almost every release. uname() gives you a kernel version number, which similarly changes in almost every release but is not guaranteed to do so. -- Greg Parker [email protected] Runtime Wrangler _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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 [email protected]
