MAC: 4.3.0.4 Info.plist version confusion

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#1

Hello there,

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).

Why is this? Just the shorten the version string to 3 digits? 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 even harder.

Thanks for your help and first of all thanks for your great work on this fantastic office suite.

Markus

#2

Hi Markus,

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).

Why is this? Just the shorten the version string to 3 digits? 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 even harder.

It might just be an error, or it might be linked to the hope of getting
LibreOffice onto the Apple store - I seem to recall that there is some
kind of version naming convention for that.

The best place to ask your question would be on the dev irc channel or
the dev mailing list.

Alex