guide bug?

[Joshua Root]

On 2018-4-27 23:02 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2018-04-27 14:37, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> "For the above operations provided by Tcl's file command, MacPorts
>> provides the following shorthands. These should be used in preference
>> to the Tcl commands above, as they may work around certain bugs."
> 
> Ah, I even linked to this section, but did not realize it says that...
> 
>> So we've discouraged the direct use of "file copy" over using "copy"
>> by my reading. "These should be used in preference".
> 
> Very old versions of Tcl (on Tiger and before) indeed had a bug in
> "file delete" that prompted the addition of "delete". That problem no
> longer exists as we include our own version of Tcl, but it is probably
> where this is originally coming from.
> 
> Do we really have a preference? At least for "file copy" vs. "copy",
> both seem to be used to equal amounts in Portfiles.

'move' still handles some case-sensitivity issues, but indeed 'copy' and
'delete' are just aliases these days. I think we don't need to
discourage the use of 'file', since if you hit the one fairly rare case
where there's a difference you'll know it.

- Josh