Output of port info --depends_xyz inconsistent (usually commas but not always)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 23:28, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> I have been working on a script (written in Ruby) that takes the  
> output of the port command-line program (as suggested by Rainer  
> recently), and parses the output looking for either port  
> dependencies or file dependencies (note: up until yesterday, file  
> dependences were referred to ambiguously as "non-ports"). I notice  
> that in almost all cases (among a collection of 450 MacPorts I use  
> which of course is just a fragment of what's available), that the  
> port dependencies are separated with commas, like this:
>
> $ port info --depends_lib gnome-vfs
> depends_lib: port:gconf, port:dbus, port:openssl, port:libidl,  
> port:dbus-glib, port:libxml2, port:libiconv, port:gettext
>
> But in what appears to be a minority of cases, the comma has been  
> forgone like this:
>
> $ port info --depends_run gnome-vfs
> depends_run: port:desktop-file-utils port:gnome-mime-data  
> port:shared-mime-info
>
> It was not difficult to adjust my Ruby parser to handle spaces  
> instead of commas, but I'm wondering if it matters in terms of the  
> strictness / policy as to how Portfiles should be authored and  
> maintained?

The commas do not appear in the portfiles. It must be something added  
by the "port info" command.

I seem to get commas always:

$ port info --depends_lib gnome-vfs
depends_lib: port:gconf, port:dbus, port:openssl, port:libidl,  
port:dbus-glib, port:libxml2, port:libiconv, port:gettext
$ port info --depends_run gnome-vfs
depends_run: port:desktop-file-utils, port:gnome-mime-data,  
port:shared-mime-info
$

Are you sure you're using the latest MacPorts?