ui_msg to notes

Bradley Giesbrecht brad at pixilla.com
Thu Feb 11 11:02:19 PST 2010


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On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Scott Haneda wrote:

> Cool, I will make the change, thank you for the heads up.
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>
> On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>
>> Yes, the notes feature allows a user to pull them up from the  
>> portfile at any time rather than having to watch the output from  
>> the install command.
>>
>> "port notes PORTNAME" should demonstrate it.
>>
>> In your case, you need to change ui_msg to notes, rather than  
>> combining a bunch of ui_msgs since you have it as one string.   
>> You'll also want it outside of any blocks, as the user will call it  
>> anytime rather than just during build.  Note: the notes will be  
>> output during the installation automatically.
>>
>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
>>
>>> Can you elaborate on that?  I have always used ui_msg, is there a  
>>> change to use notes now over that, or there there conditions where  
>>> one is preferred over the other?
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