[Openmcl-devel] Determining OSX version at runtime

[Neil Baylis]

Daniel,

There's a feature that's available in 10.6 that's not available in 10.5,
specifically, the ability to assign an NSImage directly to the content
property of a CALayer in Apple's Core Animation technology.

Neil



On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:35 PM, <dherring at tentpost.com> wrote:

> > What's the correct way to determine the OSX version at runtime?
> >
> > Specifically, how do I make the behavior change if it's 10.6 or later?
>
> I suspect this is the wrong question to be asking.  Are you really wanting
> to print "10.5" or "10.6"?  Or are you asking because feature X is not
> available on older versions?  Or does feature Y exist but crash
> frequently?  Is feature Y's fix readily detectable?
>
> Feature-specific tests that probe for functionality often perform better
> than hard coded lookup tables of known configurations (that don't handle
> unusual configurations and aren't updated in the future)...
>
> - Daniel
>
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