RFR 9 : 8160370 : System.getProperty("os.version") returns "Unknown" on Mac

[Brent Christian]

On 6/29/16 4:47 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Brent Christian <brent.christian at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> The code to restore behavior on older Mac systems is only a few
>> lines, so that seems like a good way to get testing going again.
>
> I think we should move away from testing on unsupported platforms.
> Is this just temporary?  when will this be removed?

When the minimum Mac build platform is SDK 10.10, we'll be able to call 
operatingSystemVersion directly without using msgSend.  We can also 
consider removing this then.

Thanks,
-Brent