On 11.01.2022 17:32, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
Le 11/01/2022 à 12:16, Chris Sherlock a écrit :
Hi all,
The output of =INFO(“OSVERSION”) currently gives the wrong version for
MacOS (it says it is Windows).
From the help, it is not a bug: =INFO("osversion") aswers always
"Windows (32-bit) NT 5.01", for compatibility reasons
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060104.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3691824
According to the inputs from various users on the bug report:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140286
Excel these days returns correct system information, instead of just
always returning "Windows (32-bit) NT 5.01". It was my understanding
that we couldn't change the string because that's what Excel always
returned back in the old days. So I assume that's where the
"compatibility reasons" clause comes from. Maybe Eike can clarify
whether I remember this correctly. I believe I heard that originally
from Daniel Rentz who was the expert on all things Excel at the time.
Since the situation has changed today, I think it's reasonable for Calc
to return correct system info as well, and update the help text along
with it.
Kohei
