Re: Plan E from Outer Space
Re: Plan E from Outer Space
- Subject: Re: Plan E from Outer Space
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:41:15 -0700
On 2009-06-18, at 00:54:04, John Baltutis wrote:
See <http://prowiki.isc.upenn.edu/wiki/Manipulating_Plists> for a
good write up on defaults, plists, and PlistBuddy.
NB: this article needs a few corrections. For instance the statement:
"The old-style is depreciated and you will not find it in a file, but
many of the tools still display it and read it."
is not entirely accurate.
1. These so-called "old-style" property lists are used extensively in
Xcode, including its own project file format and .xcconfig files. This
format is unlikely to become obsolete in the near future because the
simplest expression:
// My xcconfig
#include "other.xcconfig"
"key1" = "value1";
"key2" = "value2";
can be used by various excellent but non-XML capable developer tools.
2. Old-style plists come in several flavors: The "ASCII" type is the
inherited NeXT type (and will handle MacRoman (NeXT?) encoded text up
to the 255th slot). Other types are UTF-8 encoded with "// !$*UTF8*$!"
on the first line (note the C++ style comment capability) and .strings
files which applications use for localized strings. These last may be
in one or another of the Unicode encodings.
3. If it was true, the term would be "deprecated", not "depreciated" :-)
Philip Aker
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