Incorrect OS X version number coming back from Finder on OS 10.9.5 (?)

[Shane_Stanley]

@DJ Bazzie Wazzie

So an all OS version solution would be reading the SystemVersion.plist file then?

It might be, but I don’t know how far back your use of System Events to parse it would work.

[DJ_Bazzie_Wazzie]

@Shane Stanley

@DJ Bazzie Wazzie

So an all OS version solution would be reading the SystemVersion.plist file then?

It might be, but I don’t know how far back your use of System Events to parse it would work.

As far as I know it goes back to Tiger. And if I remember correctly, this file is also being used to set the system information, at least the “about mac” dialog box reads out this file. So I think it’s in there since the start of Mac OS X, but I’m not sure. I only know for sure that it works with Tiger and up, and I think that’s backward compatible enough, right?

[StefanK]

@Shane Stanley

. but I don’t know how far back your use of System Events to parse it would work.

Of course it’s reasonable to think about alternatives to potentiell breaking functions in the future,
but at the moment (and in 10.10) system info works great in AppleScript and [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] operatingSystemVersionString] with a little regex to extract the version information works great in ObjC.

[Shane_Stanley]

@StefanK

at the moment (and in 10.10) system info works great in AppleScript

Yes – it even tells you the version of AppleScript Studio