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How to compare versions by marketing version

Asked by davsimpson

Hello,

I appear to be having the exact opposite problem from dwood.

I use CFBundleVersion to contain an internal SVN build number (i.e. 3023), and I use CFBundleShortVersionString to display a marketing version number (i.e. 1.1). I want sparkle to only compare the CFBundleShortVersionString against what is in the appcast. From looking through the code, it only appears to check again CFBundleVersion in [NSBundle version].

Is there any suggestions other than hacking on the Sparkle code to make it work this way?

I've tried setting 'sparkle:shortVersionString' in my appcast in the hope this would trigger the CFBundleShortVersionString to be used locally..

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Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak) said : 		#1

Sorry, that's not supported behavior. The CFBundleShortVersionString is a localized, human-readable string, so it's typically not treated as machine-parseable. Why not just stick the SVN build numbers in the appcast? Failing that, you can swap implementations of the "versionString" and "displayVersionString" accessors in SUAppcastItem.

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