create a plist from script with iRev

[Jim Ault]

Idea:
You could send the plist file to a Rev cgi running on OSX and it would  
return the result, or perhaps an iPhone app (as it might have plutil  
in its operating system)

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On Jan 5, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Thomas McGrath III  
> <mcgrath3 at mac.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone have a way or explanation on how to create a plist file  
>> on
>> revOnline via script???
>>
>> It turns out that Apple recommends using a pList over json or xml for
>> transferring data via NSUrl.
>>
>> There would be a lot of things I could do if I knew how to create  
>> them.
>>
>> (on the desktop I can do them and upload manually but then I would  
>> still
>> have to populate them online)
>
>
> Tom, I have a stack that I use for editing plist files:
> http://www.troz.net/rev/stacks/PlistEditor.rev
>
> Perhaps you could start with an existing plist and use the scripts in
> here to modify them.
> When you say revOnline, do you mean On-Rev? revOnline doesn't allow
> anything other than stack hosting does it?
> As regards On-Rev, the servers are Linux machines, so the plutil
> command will not be available, as it is OS X only.
>