IMSafer supports Mac OSX versions 10.3.9 through 10.4.x We have bumped into several issues with differences between the two minor versions of OSX 10.3 and 10.4. For instance the ps command has additional options in OSX version 10.4. We tend to write our code for 10.4 then back port it to 10.3.9. So issues like this tend to cause minor road blocks. The most recent was use of launchd verses StartupItems, Apple plans to not support StartItems in the future however 10.3.9 only provides StartupItems. So in order to handle some of these issues we rely on the scripting available in Apple’s PackageManager. One short coming of the PackageManager is that it only provides a few environment variables to the installation scripts. One of the variables I wish was available would be the version currently running operating system. I know that there are ways to use the unix command uname [...]
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