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This "convulted version checking method" is the default way to do it with Java, I'm not sure if there's any other programming languages that do it as well.

• ohyesyodo 12y ago
  Source for that?
  • MHordecki 12y ago
    System.getProperty("os.name")
  • tokenizerrr 12y ago
    Yeah, the OP[1]. A lot of the returned results are Java code, alternatively there's also [2]. [1] https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22windows+9%22 https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22win... [2] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/sysprop.html http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment...
    • ohyesyodo 12y ago
      No. He said that it was the 'default' way of doing it. Yes, it has happened X times, that does not mean it's the default way of doing it. Maybe there's some other method which is done a lot more often and hence should be considered the 'default' way.
• TillE 12y ago
  It's insane to check version numbers as strings. I guess the JDK is assuming you're not actually doing anything important with those properties (eg, just writing them to a log). Python for example wraps GetVersionEx appropriately with sys.getwindowsversion()