Re: [AD] Proposing patch in windows detection

[aj <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Victor wrote:

> And what about Windows Vista? (Is it some variant of Longhorn? If yes,
> we should simple consider it Longhorn).
>  

Do you have any evidence its not the same thing ?
MSDN is all we can go by, if its not docmented in there, its not worth 
debating.
And if you can proof something is wrong on MSDN, submit a bug, it'll get 
corrected.

> Diferentiating between Win 2003 and Win 2003 R2 isn't usefull for our
> purposes, i believe (if it was then Allegro should diferentiate between
> Win98 and Win98SE too).
> But still has a problem here. "Windows XP Profession x64 Edition" has a
> 5.2 version number too, so it would be detected as Win 2003 instead of
> Win XP.
>  


URL, on msdn ?   somehow i think XP and XPx64 will be able to be 
differentiated.




> As we can see, even in MSDN the procedures to detect the correct
> version of the Windows are very tortuous (M$ really doesn't like to
> keep things simple).
>
> I would like to see more comments about that.vidence!
>  




> So people, what do you
> think about this?
>
> Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva
>
> --- aj <aj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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>
> > there is most likely  better functions that can called to obtain
> > correct 
> > version numbers...
> >
> >
> >    
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/osversioninfo_str.asp
>  
>
> > Windows Server "Longhorn"    6.0   
> > Windows "Longhorn"    6.0   
> > Windows Server 2003 R2    5.2   
> > Windows Server 2003    5.2   
> > Windows XP    5.1   
> > Windows 2000    5.0   
> > Windows Me    4.90   
> > Windows 98    4.10   
> > Windows NT 4.0    4.0   
> > Windows 95    4.0
> >
> > so 95 and NT will look similar, but then you can test the
> > dwPlatformId  
> > to differetntiate that one.
> >    
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