Re: [toolbox] What OS releases are (still) in use?
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From: Maxwell, A. R <ada...@pn...> - 2005-11-03 22:07:23
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On Nov 3, 2005, at 13:35, Maarten Sneep wrote: > On 30 Oct 2005, at 11:20, Maarten Sneep wrote: > >> Is anyone aware of the Mac OS X versions that are currently in >> use? And of course especially the distribution of that use in our >> audience. >> >> Does anyone have code to gather this information over the >> internet? I must stress that we should never do this "in secrecy", >> always ask the user whether he/she wants to participate in this >> check or not. > > The omnigroup do this, and have posted some statistics of their > users. take this with as much salt as you need, our users may show > a very different distribution. http://update.omnigroup.com/ > > I think the OmniWebFramework (OWF) can be used for this, but I'm > not sure about that. Another question is whether you want to use > that code, and whether it is easier to use curl or similar. I think this was actually a private framework until the latest version of their frameworks release. It's the OmniSoftwareUpdate framework, and you can get it from <ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/ software/Source/MacOSX/Frameworks/>. From a quick look, OSU doesn't appear to link with any of the other Omni frameworks, so it's probably a fairly easy addition to most projects. Omni's stuff is pretty nice to work with, in general (BibDesk uses OmniBase/OmniFoundation/OmniAppKit). Adam |