Missing Feature?

For as long as there’s been an update checker in ZDLSharp, I’ve included ZDLSharp in the User-Agent field of the HTTP requests. With this, I also send out the OS type and verson, so I can easily target specific operating systems better. Come to find out, Qt has no easy to way to get some of that information, such as windows major, minor, release, and build IDs. The QSysInfo class isn’t much help either, it just provides a variable that maps to some constant, which is NOT fun at all. Also, that works for Windows and Mac only, so I have no idea what else is going on. I’d have to check: Win32, WinNT, WinCE, Mac, and then deduce that it’s Linux. Not particularly the best way to do it. I may have to try and write my own cross platform versioning stuff, because this is just unreal, and a complete oversight in my books.

References:

http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2003-06/msg01237.html
http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2005-09/msg00741.html