Re: Info-plist naming

[Fred Kiefer]

On 28.12.2013 21:36, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
>> Xcode (at least from v5) generates a Info.plist with the name
>> xxx-Info.plist where xxx is app / bundle name.
>>
>> GNUstep expects a plist name
>> xxxInfo.plist
>>
>> Is this done deliberately to keep them apart or did they use to be
>> same once?
>>
>> Should GNUstep make be updated to automatically recognize Xcode
>> generated Info-plist as well?
>>
> they are differently named since I work for GNUstep and use MacOS, and
> that is since 10.0 and a decade or more ago.
> 
> It is useful for them to be different, since they might be different and
> I maintain most apps I write with two ports that share common code, but
> different settings.
> 
> We should however make our tools "Apple aware". E.g. by using Apple's
> info file if only that is present or, perhaps, at the first time "copy
> it over" or both.

I already put in a similar solution. And you should consider using the
.cplist approach (see make/Instance/rules.make) if you need different
values for these two systems within the same Info.plist.

Fred