MAC OS: 4.3.0.4 Info.plist version confusion

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi Markus, *,

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Markus Jansen
<markus.jansen at plainpicture.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
> hope writing to the right mailing list; I wrote to the users list, where I
> was told to ask my question here before filling out a bug report:
>
> I just wanted to check out the new libreOffice with a Mac and found out that
> in the Info.plist - file the key "CFBundleShortVersionString" is
> 4.3.4 in contrast to the "CFBundleGetInfoString" which is 4.3.0.4 (see the
> third digit: zero).

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74244

> Why is this? Just to shorten the version string to 3 digits?

Yes - Apple's doc say it is a three element string, and so far nobody
has provided pointers to app-store listed applications that don't
follow that word-by-word (although many programs "in the wild" use
longer version strings and seem to work fine).

So if you have a software from Appstore that has longer version
number, then the limit can be dropped...

> And if a future
> long version will be 4.3.1.3, will the short one be 4.3.1, which is smaller
> than the older one (4.3.4)? Such things makes automatic software deployment
> under Mac OS even harder.

Yeah, that was a specific bug with the code - I unfortunately forgot
about that one, despite predicting this mismatch....

ciao
Christian