MediaInfo & Tiger compatibility [topic in English]

gabod3 · Post by **gabod3** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:02 pm

DiegoMax wrote:By the way, I forgot to ask this before... but is it OK to write in english on these boards ??
We could use other boards if the english language is an issue, i dont want to piss off any italian visitor.

I've separated the troubleshooting posts about Tiger compatibility in this new topic in the "help area", so the other one is still dedicated to the updates communications.
No problem for the language and thanks for your work!

DiegoMax · Post by **DiegoMax** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:07 pm

Thank you gabod3

DiegoMax · Post by **DiegoMax** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:25 pm

Well, im puting back an old G4 that i had on the basement into my desk.... look what you have just done!

DiegoMax · Post by **DiegoMax** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:18 am

Ok, Found the root of the problems.

Inside the application's info.plist file, there is a key called:

LSMinimumSystemVersion, whose value is "10.4.11", according to apple, this is the minimum system version for the application to run without telling the user to upgrade the OS and showing the info box that everybody here on Tiger was seeing.

Now, it seems that apple never intended to go any higher than 10.4.9 when they first wrote the number checking function, and clearly they are using ascii sorting instead of numeric sorting to compare the version numbers, SOOOO, in Tiger's API, 10.4.11 is OLDER than 10.4.9, because, the first digit after the 4 is a 1.

All this hassle has been caused by a bug in the Cocoa/LaunchServices API itself in Tiger.

More info can be found here : http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/346 and here: http://blog.onesadcookie.com/2007/11/ls ... rsion.html

I will release a new updated version with the key set at a value of 10.4.9, thats it. 2 Wasted days checking and rechecking all my application linking, and it wasnt my fault at all.

/me blames Apple.

Thanks everybody who helped me to test this.
Cheers!

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:33 am

DiegoMax wrote:Thanks everybody who helped me to test this.
Cheers!

We thank you for your efforts and understanding. Who could have guessed such a queer issue?!?

Looking forward to your next release, many thanks from surviving Tiger users

DiegoMax · Post by **DiegoMax** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:26 pm

New bugfix build has been released (0.7.17.3):

http://mediainfo.massanti.com/releases/latest.dmg

Everybody running Tiger should update.

Thanks, Diego.

meigel · Post by **meigel** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:41 pm

DiegoMax wrote:New bugfix build has been released (0.7.17.3

Thanks!

Riker · Post by **Riker** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:15 pm

Thank you Diego!

.

Votantonio · Post by **Votantonio** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:52 pm

Thank you on my behalf too! Just downloaded!

flashcream · Post by **flashcream** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:39 pm

thanks a lot!