On 2007/05/10, at 15:10, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On May 10, 2007, at 5:36 AM, Paulo Moura wrote:
there is not whitespace preceding the last "+". Therefore, it
should not confuse MacPorts. Making "+" an illegal character is
just the wrong way of fixing what seems to be a parsing bug in
MacPorts. The only illegal characters should be the ones that
result in invalid file names (as this would lead to problems when
creating archives at the file system level).
I'm sure we'd be happy to accept a patch which improved the parsing :)
I would be happy to provide one but I'm a Logtalk/Prolog programmer,
not a Tcl programmer.
I'm in favor of getting the + out of your version number.
The "3.0.1+" version number is not something I control as is used
by the third-party software. This software install on a directory
named after this version number. Using a different version number
in the portfile results in a broken installation.
Does it just extract to a folder with a + in it? If so, you could
specify worksrcdir in your Portfile.
The problem is not the folder the software it extracts to but the
folder that is created during installation. I could try to patch the
original software but that's beside the point.
Moreover, what is important here is to fix the MacPorts parsing
bug uncovered by my portfile, not finding a workaround for some
specific portfile that only a few people care about.
The bug may be just that we didn't specify that + is not allowed in
version.
What should be specified, IMO, is that the version variable should
not be set to a string that is invalid as a filename. I agree that
this current limitation of MacPorts should be documented in order to
avoid porfile writers being trapped in this bug. This is a relatively
minor issue and I expect the priority of this bug to be set
accordingly. Thanks to all for the feedback on this issue. I will try
to convince the original software authors to change the version
number to something without a "+".
All the best,
Paulo
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