Deprecating port list

Bradley Giesbrecht brad at pixilla.com
Sat Mar 14 10:01:00 PDT 2009


On Mar 14, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 14.03.2009 9:15 Uhr, Neil wrote:
>> Why not send "The following ports are currently installed:" to  
>> stderr?
>
> Hm, stderr and stdout do not have to be synchron, I am not sure it  
> is a
> good idea to mix them for this purpose.
>
> Recently I added a wrapper around isatty(3) which is already used in
> port. It decides if the output is a tty or a pipe/file. I will look  
> into
> removing the header if the output is not a tty.
>
> Rainer

Or not add the header if -q.

//Brad


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