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The small corner of the ‘net I inhabit is already abuzz with things that have broken with the Mac OS X 10.4.10 update. Software seems to be breaking not because of significant changes in this update, but because of poor version checking routines.

Awesome — isn’t it?

Anyway, here are some reports I’ve heard:

• MacEnterprise list: CA eTrust 8.1 installer thinks it’s installing on Solaris 10
• MacEnterprise list: Tivoli Storage Manager installer 5.1 installer just thinks v10.4.10 is older than 10.4.3, which is rather pedestrian
• MacFixit and MacEnterprise list: Apple Remote Desktop 3 (of all applications … ahem!) can’t display version numbers correctly, or use the new version in Smart Lists.

Too bad you can’t always use Python distutils.version to compare Mac OS X version numbers. (For Mac OS X installers, you sometimes must use JavaScript.) It seems as if the version objects from distutils.version would make things soooo much easier.

Yeah, I know … I guess I’m becoming a Python fanboy. Apologies.