Re: Colours in user defaults

[Niels Grewe]

Should be fixed in gnustep-base. (The code was writing base64 encoded data to 
the beginning of the archive, not appending it as it should).

Cheers,

Niels

> Am 08.09.2015 um 08:59 schrieb Niels Grewe <address@hidden>:
> 
> 
>> Am 08.09.2015 um 08:33 schrieb Germán Arias <address@hidden>:
>> 
>> After update base and gui there is a problems when store colours in user
>> defaults. Gemas.app store the colours with something like: 
>> 
>> [defaults setObject: [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject: color]
>>            forKey: @"EditorInsertionPointColor"];
>> 
>> but then the Gemas.plist become unusable and can't be used the next
>> time. But this worked fine some days ago.
>> 
>> Germán
> 
> Richard made a few changes to property list (de)serialization recently. I 
> hazard that this introduced a problem with (de)serializing NSData. Some of 
> the tests fail with trunk:
> 
> --- Running tests in base/PropertyLists ---
> 
> base/PropertyLists/test01.m:
> Failed test:     test01.m:147 ... We can generate a property list from data
> Failed test:     test01.m:313 ... We can generate a property list from very 
> simple data
> Failed test:     test01.m:317 ... We can generate a property list from very 
> simple data (2)
> Failed test:     test01.m:322 ... We can generate a property list from an 
> array containing very simple data
> Failed test:     test01.m:340 ... We can generate a property list from an 
> array containing various things
> 
>    127 Passed tests
>      5 Failed tests
> 
> 
> One or more tests failed.  None of them should have.
> Please submit a patch to fix the problem or send a bug report to
> the package maintainer.
> 
> The tests still pass if you go back to r38951 (before the base64 change for 
> GNUstep plain-text property lists). Actually (and that might be unrelated to 
> this bug. On my system, defaults are written in the XML format), I’m not 
> really comfortable with changing the format this way. It’s fine to support 
> the deserialization from base64 <[…]> in NSPropertyListGNUstepFormat, but for 
> writing we should have designated a new version of the format (e.g. 
> ‘NSPropertyListGNUstepFormat_v1’), so that API consumers have to opt into the 
> new behaviour explicitly. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niels
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