Re: Info-plist naming

[Fred Kiefer]

On 27.12.2013 14:22, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> On 27.12.2013 05:21, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> 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?
> 
> The name that GNUstep is using was formally used by Apple as well. We
> should change the code in GNUstep make to be able to use the new file
> name as well. Most people will use the build tool Greg wrote to compile
> their Xcode projects with GNUstep, but for those bothering with writing
> a GNUmakefile we should provide this feature.
> 
> I started doing so but realized that many files in make/Instance have
> similar, but not identical, code to determine and process the Info.plist
> file. I will try to move some of that code into rule.make to. We could
> move more code there, for example to allow the use of the preprocessing
> mechanism for application plist for all types. But I am no expert in
> GNUstep make and would prefer to leave this task to somebody with more
> insight.

I just submitted a solution that even tries to do a bit more. It should
support the forms xxxInfo.plist, Info-xxx.plist and xxx-Info.plist as
well as the preprocessed form xxxInfo.cplist.

Please give it a try,
Fred