Info.plist configuration - appears to be hard coded at present with no customisation possible.

[Blatman]

Desktop mode.
Noticed when using the about role in main menu that it pops up the About box OK but the version is 1.0 / 1.0.0 - this is usually read from the Info.plist which presently is hard coded in the build process, there appears to be no way to alter the version/ short version parameters. I can set the app version in the deno.json OK but it will not be reflected in the About menu or the plist file at all. I tried placing a customised plist file in the app root folder prior to build but it does not get used at all.

[barry166]

From the current source, this is not configurable yet. The macOS bundle plist is generated in cli/tools/desktop.rs, and render_macos_info_plist() writes CFBundleShortVersionString as 1.0 and CFBundleVersion as 1.0.0 directly. The deno.json desktop config is currently only wired into things like output/name, identifier, icons, deep links, backend, and macOS codesign identity, so an app version in config will not flow into Info.plist.

So your read is right: putting a custom plist next to the app will not be picked up by deno desktop today. The practical workaround is a post-build step that edits MyApp.app/Contents/Info.plist with plutil before signing/packaging, but the proper fix would be for Deno to add a desktop app version field and pass it into the macOS/Linux/Windows package metadata.

[Blatman]

Yup sounds about right - I guess the desktop mode is quite bleeding edge at the moment so hopefully some of these quirks will be sorted. Thanks for the confirmation. At the moment the version does exist in deno.json but just needs to be connected into the plist somehow.