On Oct 15, 2013, at 3:36, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2013-10-15 01:53, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>> 
>> On Oct 14, 2013, at 12:34, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2013-10-14 21:22, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Modified: trunk/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl
>>>> ===================================================================
>>>> --- trunk/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl        2013-10-14 19:00:23 UTC 
>>>> (rev 112182)
>>>> +++ trunk/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl        2013-10-14 19:22:30 UTC 
>>>> (rev 112183)
>>>> @@ -597,8 +597,7 @@
>>>>    set os_endian [string range $tcl_platform(byteOrder) 0 end-6]
>>>>    set macosx_version {}
>>>>    if {$os_platform eq {darwin}} {
>>>> -        # This will probably break when Apple changes versioning
>>>> -        set macosx_version 10.[expr {$os_major - 4}]
>>>> +        set macosx_version [exec sw_vers -productVersion]
>>> 
>>> Afther this change, macosx_version contains the string "10.8.5" instead
>>> of "10.8" as it did before. This breaks some code in base that compares
>>> this variable as a string to "10.5" or "10.4".
>> 
>> Well then those are bugs that certainly should be fixed as well =)
> 
> The question would be whether we want macosx_version to story "10.X"
> only as it did before or fix the comparisons to use version comparison.

We should fix the comparisons.

> Writing this condition as
> [vercmp $macosx_version 10.5] >= 0 && [vercmp $macosx_version 10.6] < 0
> seems a bit cumbersome.

Cumbersome yet correct.

> Is there an advantage of storing the third part
> of the version number?

Correctness, consistency, the possible need to do something differently for 
different dot releases, etc.

> 
> Rainer

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