On 24 Jan 2023, at 14:50, John Doherty via mailmate wrote:
Do not know when "old-style ASCII" plists were superseded by "Apple
binary."
They have coexisted for a very long time and to all intents and purposes
are equivalent.
I don’t believe the original readable form is ever going away, though
it may give way in popularity to json instead of the “old” xml. The
binary version is an optimisation to assist with rapid launch of
applications. My understanding is that either format will be used by any
application given this is built into the relevant system supplied
module.
And while talking xml(aka. plist)/binary there is command line tool that
does the conversion: xml/plist <> json <> binary <> other
NAME
plutil – property list utility
SYNOPSIS
plutil [command_option] [other_options] file
...
DESCRIPTION
plutil can be used to check the syntax of property list files, or
convert a plist file from one
format to another. Specifying - as an input file reads from
stdin.
…
-convert fmt Convert the named file to the indicated format and
write back to the file system.
If the file can't be loaded due to invalid syntax,
the operation fails. This is
the only option to support objc swift formats.
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