Re: Getting an app's identifier
Re: Getting an app's identifier
- Subject: Re: Getting an app's identifier
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:47:36 -0400
At 4:47 PM -0400 5/30/03, John Stewart wrote:
Just an FYI to anyone messing with the scripts submitted on this thread...
I later ran my script on the FileMaker Pro 6 app and discovered
that the target plist is named Info-macos.plist instead of the more
generally used info.plist. Of course, this causes the script to
fail. I suspect that the name of the file, and the location, is at
the discretion of the app's developer. As always, error checking
should be applied in cases where you aren't sure of the file's
existence, name and/or location. :-)
-- Rob
In answer to Rob's comment, if you are going to quote someone,
please include all of the relevant text. I specified in my email
that error checking needed to be added. That would have accounted
for cases such as the one you mentioned or at least done a better
job.
1. The message that I replied to was Paul Skinner's, not yours.
Paul's message just happened to quote yours. I replied to his because
it was the one that I happened to be reading at the time.
2. I didn't criticize your script and I didn't misquote you - not
even by omission.
3. I reckon I'll quote as I see fit. Please learn to live with it.
Mailing list participants aren't perfect. If they were, we wouldn't
be required to put up with messages that quote 100 lines only to add
"Thanks" at the bottom. :-)
4. I sent a script to the list too. It contained no error checking
whatsoever, and I didn't even go so far as to recommend that it be
added. This means that if I was criticizing a script, it was my own.
Look at my message (it's up there ^). It refers to "my script". It's
not relevant anyway because I wasn't criticizing. The meat of the
warning was that not all apps share a common naming convention for
the "info.plist" which is at the heart of the subject.
5. Bye for now.
--
Rob Jorgensen
Ohio, USA
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