[vtk-developers] One last Carbon remnant: Info.plist

[Sean McBride]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:39:22 -0700, David Gobbi said:

>The app bundles produced for the OS X tests and examples contain an
>Info.plist with the following outdated keys:
>
>LSRequiresCarbon: No VTK apps require Carbon, as of VTK 7.
>CFBundleLongVersionString: This key is not documented by Apple, perhaps it
>was never used?
>
>The plist template in cmake was last updated in 2002, and definitely needs
>to be updated

The file named "AppleInfo.plist"?  Yeah, that does need love... but I guess we should take that to the cmake list...

>but I was wondering, has anyone experienced problems with
>these old plists yet?  For people with more knowledge of the internal
>workings of app bundles, are problems anticipated?

No, they should be harmless.  CFBundleLongVersionString will be ignored.  LSRequiresCarbon will be ignored too, it means Carbon as opposed to Classic (OS 9 emulation)!

Cheers,

-- 
____________________________________________________________
Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com 
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada