Suggested port command enhancement?

paul beard paulbeard at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 16:53:28 PDT 2008


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

>
> Sorry, I was unclear, it is not a "missing" backslash. There is a trailing
> whitespace after the backslash in portmirror. The backslash has to be the
> last character on the line, otherwise Tcl doesn't see the next line as
> continuation of the comment.
>
> Tcl interprets the backslash as an escape for the space, not for the
> newline character, so "missing" was really misleading here. It's hard to see
> the difference when looking at the output of head or cat.
>
> Fixed in r37393 for the release_1_6 branch.
>
> Hope this is clear now?
>

Yup, perfectly. Now if only these changes could be pushed out to a waiting
world <hint hint>


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