Why does everybody switch to dynamic plists?

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:54:04AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:54:16 -0500
> Michael Johnson <ahze at ahze.net> wrote:
 
> My initial question was "Why do people _switch_ to dynamic plists even
> when a static plist was available?". My general question was triggered
> by the commit mail of some java port which exchanged the static plist
> with a dynamic one (there may be a valid reason for this port to switch,
> but I don't care about it since I want to talk about the global point of
> view).

Java ports that generate docs using Javadoc pretty much have to use
dynamic PLISTS, as the list of generated files depends on the version
of Java used to build the port.

   Cheers,

   Matthew

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