Property list (plist)
The Property List (plist) format is widely used within Mac OS X. It is used to store various kinds of information, e.g. configuration.
There are multiple format variations of plists:
- ASCII plist
- Binary plist
- XML plist
- JSON plist
External Links
- Wikipedia article on Property list
- CFBinaryPList.c by Apple
- Old-Style ASCII Property Lists
- Python Module for dealing with Binary Property Lists (bplists) Documentation
Tools
- binplist
- Python Module for dealing with Binary Property Lists (bplists)
- libplist
- munki - Managed software installation for OS X comes with code to handle binary plists
- plutil.pl
- Property List Editor on Mac OS X