On Feb 18, 2007, at 14:56, Elias Pipping wrote:

On Feb 18, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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I guess the MacPorts copy command isn't available until MacPorts 1.4? so "system cp ... ..." is still the best way to copy something? Once MacPorts makes the copy command available, I suppose that would be safer than direct system calls.

what about tcl's 'file copy'?

Oh, ok. I didn't know (or I forgot) that existed. I'm not a tcl expert at all. I just noticed that a "copy" command was added to portutil.tcl in MacPorts trunk, and that it isn't in the 1.3.2 source, so I assume it's better in some way than file copy.