[TxMt] Re: conversion of bundles for 2.0

[Matt Neuburg]

On Nov 10, 2014, at 11:29 PM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:

> 
> Thanks, the issue is that the bundle contains a titlecased “Info.plist” where TextMate 2.0 only looks for the lowercased version (“info.plist”).

Then TextMate 2.0 is wrong.

> For now you can rename the contained “Info.plist” (to be lowercase) but I’ll make TextMate ignore the case of the file starting with next build.
> 

No, it shouldn't "ignore the case". It should look for titlecased "Info.plist" - to match what Apple looks for:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFBundles/BundleTypes/BundleTypes.html

It happens that your lowercase "info.plist" might work on some people's machines, but you cannot rely on this: a folder that contains a lowercase "info.plist" can break against Apple's expectations, and this thing will then appear as a normal folder in the Finder, not a bundle. You should not _accept_ Info.plist; you should _require_ Info.plist, just like Apple.

m.

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