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

[Tabitha McNerney]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

>
> 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?


1.6.0 right?

T.M.
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