Re: Changing plist name changes Xcode editor layout
Re: Changing plist name changes Xcode editor layout
- Subject: Re: Changing plist name changes Xcode editor layout
- From: Tom Harrington <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:43:11 -0700
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:59 PM, David Dunham <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 4 Feb 2010, at 16:40, Tom Harrington wrote:
>> But it's not called Info.plist-- I called it unitInfo.plist because it
>> contains miscellaneous info regarding measurement units the app knows
>> about. I could call it unitDetails.plist or something else, but it
>> doesn't make sense that any file with both "info" and "plist" in its
>> name would be assumed to be an app's Info.plist.
>
>
> If you have a more complex project, with multiple targets, each with their own Info.plist, you may well want exactly this behavior.
>
> FWIW, I think new iPhone projects get "MyApp-Info.plist" by default. That being the case, again you'd want this behavior.
I don't think I would. Undocumented dependencies a file's name is
ugly at best. Using file extensions is a well-estabilshed idea but
the rest of the file name shouldn't matter. Xcode stores metadata
about the files in a project, there's no reason it couldn't just mark
app Info.plist files as having this special status different from
other property list files, regardless of file name.
Maybe the real problem is that ".plist" has been overloaded with
multiple meanings? The file structure may be the same but the purpose
of the files is not.
--
Tom Harrington
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AIM: atomicbird1
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