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Re: Question about Info.plist's


  • Subject: Re: Question about Info.plist's
  • From: Ben Kennedy via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 11:47:07 -0700

> On 19 Aug 2020, at 9:07 am, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> The plist file has, additionally to all the default stuff, the key
> CFBuildNumber (with a value that I increment automatically).
>
> In Xcode, I tried to change "Bundle version" to a value like
>
>   $(CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION)_$(CFBuildNumber)

As an aside, it strikes me as a dubious idea to call the latter
"CFBuildNumber". That sounds like the name of a well-known CoreFoundation key,
but as far as I can tell, it isn't one. (A Google search for "cfbuildnumber
site:apple.com" yields only two results for me, one of which is a Tech Note
that seems to contain errors [1]).

To avoid false inferences or potential confusion, if it were me I would use a
completely different name for the key, such as "MyProjectBuildNumber" or
whatever. (But why not just take advantage of the existing
CFBundleShortVersionString and CFBundleVersion?)

-ben

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2259/_index.html:
Under the heading "What's Next", about a third of the way down, the text seems
to confuse "CFBundleVersion" with what's actually CFBundleShortVersionString,
and "CFBuildNumber" with what's actually CFBundleVersion. I've just filed a bug
report on this: FB8464082.

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