(Bug): Info.plist is missing double quotes, causing parsing issues

[mihelm]

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Natron version

Natron 2.5.0

Operating system

macOS 26

System specs

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Did you install Natron using the official installer?

• Yes, I used the official installer
• No, I installed from a binary archive
• No, I compiled Natron from sources
• No, I installed Natron via another method

Custom installation path

No response

What were you trying to do?

I was trying to extract relevant information from the Info.plist file.

What did you expect to happen? What happened instead?

I expected plistlib to be able to parse the Info.plist file, as it can for most other apps I've encountered.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

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Additional details

Hi

My best guess is that this happens during the build process. The input file for Info.plist has correct formatting:

https://github.com/NatronGitHub/Natron/blob/RB-2.6/App/NatronInfo.plist.in

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">

But in the final app, the double quotes in the Info.plist files have been stripped out:

<?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>
<plist version=1.0>

macOS can work with this, but plistlib apparently can't. I assume the double quotes in the input file need to be escaped somehow, but I don't know how.

Cheers, michael.