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[Clemens Lang]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 04:53:13PM +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> > 'port info' output is already parsed by scripts today. It's output is
> > already machine-readable when using -q info --line --$fieldname. Your
> > change breaks this.
> 
> Just as machine readable as this line. 

Wrong, since 'port -q info --line --$fieldname' by definition only
contains information on $fieldname, whereas your message contains
natural language.

> One other usual thing that be done is ensuring that ui_* print to a
> different stream than the one `port -q info --line` prints to. I would
> hope that Tcl doesn't make that needlessly difficult.

That would happen if you were using ui_warn or ui_error.

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Clemens