Re: [toolbox] What OS releases are (still) in use?

[Maxwell, A. R <ada...@pn...>]

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