On Mar 20, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2015, at 4:21 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 18, 2015, at 6:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>>> I'll write a more detailed explanation shortly.
>> 
>> Do you know what happened here?
> 
> The protobuf3-cpp port was created in r134007 with the unusual version value 
> "0.0.0.1 # remove this version leaving the above one". Clearly "# remove this 
> version leaving the above one" was intended to be a comment, but in Tcl, a 
> "#" only begins a comment if it occurs where a command is expected. I doubt 
> previous MacPorts base programmers expected the version of a port to contain 
> spaces, nor tested such a situation, and it appears that several parts of 
> MacPorts don't handle it well. For example, installing the port fails:

Thanks Ryan!

Blair

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