[MacPorts] #64326: app PortGroup: app.name unable to handle names with spaces

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#64326: app PortGroup: app.name unable to handle names with spaces
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  Reporter:  jasonliu--  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:  2.7.1
Resolution:              |   Keywords:
      Port:  pg-app-1.0  |
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Comment (by jasonliu--):

 Replying to [comment:1 ryandesign]:
 > Did you try:
 >
 > {{{
 > app.name    AppName With Spaces
 > }}}
 >
 > Works fine in the chromium-bsu, frozenbubble2, and wesnoth ports, for
 example.

 Ironically no, that was the one iteration I didn't try! And yes you're
 right, it does work, although years of programming has been drilled into
 me to never try to use a string naked like that, lol! Also, it would seem
 to preclude the use of names that have been stored in a variables, since

 {{{
 set foo AppName With Spaces
 app.name $foo
 }}}

 throws a Tcl error of {{{wrong # args: should be "set varName
 ?newValue?"}}}, and

 {{{
 set foo  "AppName With Spaces"
 # or
 set foo  {AppName With Spaces}

 # in combination with any of

 app.name $foo
 # or
 app.name "$foo"
 # or
 app.name {$foo}
 }}}

 goes right back to resulting in an output of {{{{AppName With
 Spaces}.app}}}. (The last {{{app.name}}} actually results in
 {{{{$foo}.app}}}, lol)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64326#comment:3>
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