CFBundleGetInfoString?

Hi,

yesterday morning, I was looking at Apple's docs regarding the strings
that should be put in the info.plist file for bundles, and found the entry
for CFBundleGetInfoString. It contained a note that the string used to
contain the version number (as well as company and copyright information),
but that the version should now be dropped from there.

Experimenting with that recommendation, I removed the version from that
string, leaving it in the two version strings as described. But Finder
doesn't work right with that. It displays (for example) "Version: copyright
2006, My Freaking Company, Inc.". This leaves no way for users to tell what
version of the software they're using!

I decided to ask here if anyone knew what the correct thing to do now
is. So... I went back to their site just now to copy&paste that text here,
but the entire CFBundleGetInfoString entry has been removed! (There's a note
saying it was removed yesterday, but no reason why.)

I also found an entry called NSHumanReadableCopyright, which states that
it is intended to replace the old CFBundleGetInfoString, but when I use that
instead of CFBundleGetInfoString, the GetInfo window only displays the
version number, with no copyright/company information.

Anyone know what the deal is with this? Where are we supposed to put
our copyright/company information, if not in CFBundleGetInfoString? Is it
Apple's intent for Finder to no longer display that information? (And if
so, why???)

Thanks,
-Howard

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"Howard" wrote:

> Experimenting with that recommendation, I removed the version from that
> string, leaving it in the two version strings as described. But Finder
> doesn't work right with that. It displays (for example) "Version: copyright
> 2006, My Freaking Company, Inc.". This leaves no way for users to tell what
> version of the software they're using!

I think you want CFBundleShortVersionString. Finder displays that, if
present.

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