On Jun 21, 2007, at 02:45, Ryan Schmidt wrote:


On Jun 21, 2007, at 04:31, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

But could you please not output messages and exit merely in a platform statement? Please do so only within a stage such as pre- fetch, e.g.:

platfrom darwin 7 {
        pre-fetch {
                ui_msg "GiNaC is not supported on Panther (OS X 10.3.x)."
                exit 1
        }
}

Otherwise, people running port info, portindex, etc. on darwin 7 will be inconvenienced by the exit.

Sorry; I didn't see Chris already made these points.

It really bears re-iterating though. Calling exit(1) in a Portfile is just bad news, at any stage. Maybe we should remove that procedure from the Portfile Tcl interpreter ...

-landonf

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