Bug #122610 for Mac-PropertyList: Documentation: ASCII plist files are not supported

Wed Jul 26 05:41:52 2017 https://me.yahoo.com/a/2_4mNud8l8NdLATBjOhzq8T0zYDR5vC_ZaLxxQ--#6fc45 - Ticket created

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Documentation: ASCII plist files are not supported

Old, NEXTSTEP / OPENSTEP / GNUstep style ASCII plist files are not supported. The interface is not compatible with Data::PropertyList (which seems to support ASCII plist files only) either. This might be useful to mention in the documentation. Info on the old format: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/PropertyLists/OldStylePlists/OldStylePLists.html http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php?title=Property_Lists

Wed Jul 26 12:51:51 2017 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Wed Jul 26 05:41:52 2017, https://me.yahoo.com/a/2_4mNud8l8NdLATBjOhzq8T0zYDR5vC_ZaLxxQ--#6fc45 wrote: Show quoted text

> Old, NEXTSTEP / OPENSTEP / GNUstep style ASCII plist files are not > supported.

The module is for Mac plists. If you want something else, that's probably a different module. I have no plans to support anything else.

Wed Jul 26 12:51:51 2017 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Jul 26 12:52:04 2017 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'

Thu Jul 27 11:53:45 2017 https://me.yahoo.com/a/2_4mNud8l8NdLATBjOhzq8T0zYDR5vC_ZaLxxQ--#6fc45 - Correspondence added

OS X supports the older files read-only as per https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/PropertyLists/OldStylePlists/OldStylePLists.html They might be encountered with some applications primarily targeting other Cocoa implementations, like GNUMail. This ticket is meant as a request to document the limitation. (Implementing support for a rare variant likely does not make sense) (I came across the module looking to decode files generated by a legacy app that uses the format. Currently, it is necessary to look at the source code to confirm that it does not support the format)

Fri Jul 28 05:04:04 2017 https://me.yahoo.com/a/2_4mNud8l8NdLATBjOhzq8T0zYDR5vC_ZaLxxQ--#6fc45 - Correspondence added

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cpan [...] mohag.net

Apple has a parser here: https://opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-855.16/CFOldStylePList.c.auto.html (Likely license compatibility issues...)

Fri Jul 28 05:26:37 2017 https://me.yahoo.com/a/2_4mNud8l8NdLATBjOhzq8T0zYDR5vC_ZaLxxQ--#6fc45 - Correspondence added

XCode also uses old-style ASCII plist files for project files. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1452707/library-to-read-write-pbxproj-xcodeproj-files Sample file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WebKit/webkit/master/Source/WebKit/WebKit.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

Sun Jul 30 14:32:23 2017 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'rejected' to 'open'

Sun Jul 30 14:32:34 2017 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Taken

Sun Jul 30 14:33:58 2017 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I'll include such a note in the next release. I've also made wishlist items for the ASCII and JSON formats in the GitHub issues: https://github.com/briandfoy/mac-propertylist/issues I'm unlikely to do the work myself unless I need those features though.

Sun Jul 30 14:34:06 2017 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'