PList Compiler / News: Recent posts

Hi XCoders,

Version 0.6 of PList Compiler has just been released. This version implements the following features:

* added support for -Dmacro[=value] options on the command line

* improved generation of Pkginfo file with support of PKGINFO_SIGNATURE and
PKGINFO_TYPE preprocessor macros

* simplified the variable substitution mechanism (removed need of double
underscores)

* backslash at end of line is interpreted as a line continuation
character... read more

Hi XCoders,

Version 0.5 of PList Compiler has just been released. This version implements three new features and fixes a few bugs:

* new -prefix option (RFE 1461559)

* new -o option (Patch 1474228)

* new escape_entities pragma to control conversion to XML entities

* fixed bug with square brackets and double slashes inside quoted strings

* fixed bug with user defined macros enclosed in double underscores (Bug 1413845)... read more

Hi XCoders,

Version 0.4 of PList Compiler has just been released. This version is a bug-fixing upgrade:
* Modified the parseString proc to generate correct XML entities for the ampersand, greater-than, less-than, quote and apostroph symbols.
* Use TARGET_BUILD_DIR rather than BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR to define the output folder, in order to point to the correct location regardless of the value of DEPLOYMENT_LOCATION.
* Fixed a bug in the processInclude proc when HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS is not defined by the XCode project.... read more

Hi XCoders,

Version 0.3 of PList Compiler has just been released. This version is a small upgrade: it fixes a parsing bug occuring when an opening bracket or brace immediately follows the array keyword.

Cheers,

Bernard

Hi XCoders,

Version 0.2 of PList Compiler has just been released. This version introduces two code contributions provided by Franz Detro
<franz.detro@native-instruments.de> (thanks):

* Added a -pkginfo command line option to ask PList Compiler to
automatically generate the PkgInfo file

* Added support for the angle brackets syntax in the #include directives
(instead of double quotes). In that case, included files are searched in
the paths contained in the HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS variable.... read more

The final 0.1 version of PList Compiler has just been released. The binary is almost the same as in the rc1 release: it just adds a -version command line option to report the current version number of the script.
The documentation has been augmented.

Thank you for sending feedback.

Cheers

Bernard

Thanks to the feedback I received, I could fix some glitches found in the beta releases. I think the tool is ready now for a release candidate, so I have just uploaded version 0,1rc1 on the project's site at SourceForge.

This version has the following characteristics:

* Allow the 'localize' keyword to be preceded by whitespace characters. Previous versions expected it to be at the beginning of a line.... read more

This second beta release just fixes a bug when #including a pathname which contains whitespace chars

PList Compiler is a property list compiler for XCode, Apple's development environment. It lets you build localized and non-localized plist files from plc and ploc source files. This is version 0.1b1.

PList Compiler is a script that you execute as a Shell Script Build Phase within your XCode project and which takes care of generating automatically the property list files for your packaged applications, bundles, frameworks, plugins, etc.... read more