freebsd-ports/devel/libPropList/pkg-descr

This library is necessary for property settings for some gnome applications.

The purpose of PL is to closely mimick the behaviour of the property
lists used in GNUstep/OPENSTEP (there formed with the NSString,
NSData, NSArray and NSDictionary classes) and to be compatible with
it. PL enables programs that use configuration or preference files to
make these compatible with GNUstep/OPENSTEP's user defaults handling
mechanism, without needing to use Objective-C or GNUstep/OPENSTEP
themselves.
This is a new port of libPropListgnome. Some gnome software uses libPropList for property settings. Window Maker also uses libPropList, as does wdm. However, there seem to be some differences between the two and nevertheless, it would not be good to have future gnome ports depend on Window Maker. I made this port from the libPropList found on the gnome ftp sites; the distribution file is called libPropList-0.7.1gnome, but it builds the library by default as libPropList. This conflicts with the libPropList installed by Window Maker, so I made this port build the library as libPropListgnome. So any future gnome ports that need libPropList should link against libPropListgnome instead. PR: ports/9006 Submitted by: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> 1998-12-09 05:11:56 +00:00			`This library is necessary for property settings for some gnome applications.`

			`The purpose of PL is to closely mimick the behaviour of the property`
			`lists used in GNUstep/OPENSTEP (there formed with the NSString,`
			`NSData, NSArray and NSDictionary classes) and to be compatible with`
			`it. PL enables programs that use configuration or preference files to`
			`make these compatible with GNUstep/OPENSTEP's user defaults handling`
			`mechanism, without needing to use Objective-C or GNUstep/OPENSTEP`
			`themselves.`