On Mon, Jun 04, 2007, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
> > It should be:
> >
> > concise system product: Mac OS X 10
> > regular system product: Mac OS X 10.3
> > verbose system product: Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9
> >
> > And the technology should be:
> >
> > concise system technology: Darwin 7
> > regular system technology: Darwin 7.9
> > verbose system technology: Apple Darwin 7.9.0
> >
> > So, the truncation was still incorrect. Hell, it is rather complicated
> > to get it right when one has to do it blindly. Find attached one more
> > version where I now also tried to fix the truncation.
>
> Works as intended.
>
> concise system product: Mac OS X 10
> regular system product: Mac OS X 10.3
> verbose system product: Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9
> concise system technology: Darwin 7
> regular system technology: Darwin 7.9
> verbose system technology: Apple Darwin 7.9.0
>
> Good blind flying!
>
> >> Just an idea/suggestion, truncating to 10 is too much...
> >
> > Really? Keep in mind that it would be reduced to 10 just for the
> > _concise_ format which is extremely truncated for mostly all platforms.
>
> Well, it depends on whether you want the version to say anything
> or if it should just say number "10" for OS "X" or something... :-)
>
> But Mac OS X 10.3 == Darwin 7, so "Mac OS X 10" would equal "Darwin".
> (as opposed to for instance Mac OS X Server 1.x which was "Rhapsody")
Ok, you conviced me. For Mac OS X it certainly makes sense to keep
10.x even in the concise output. Now committed this way to the OSSP
CVS for inclusion in the next GNU shtool version and a snapshot is now
also committed to the OpenPKG bootstrap package. Thanks for your great
support.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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