R GUI

[David Epstein]

Chris Janton wrote:
> 
> On 2008-12-17 , at 10:46 , David Epstein wrote:
> 
>> port list R* can't do what we want, can it? The shell tries to  
>> expand R* to
>> match a file in the current directory, and otherwise exits with "No  
>> match".
>> If one shields R* from the shell with quote marks, for example, then  
>> one
>> gets a list of all ports starting with R or r, and there are too  
>> many of
>> them for comfort.
> 
> 
> face at mac:~:125 $ port list R*
> R                              @2.8.0          math/R
> 
> That's running from trunk - so MacPorts version is
> 
> face at mac:~:126 $ port
> MacPorts 1.8.0
> Entering interactive mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)
> [Users/face] > ^D
> Goodbye
> 
> On my *old* system
> 
> face at x:face:123 $ port
> MacPorts 1.600
> Entering interactive mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)
> [Users/face] > ^D
> Goodbye
> face at x:face:124 $ port list R*
> face at x:face:125 $
> 
> Looks like you need a newer version of port ;-)
> 

I have version 1.700 of MacPorts, under MacOsX 10.4.11, and when I do sudo
port selfupdate, I'm told I am already up-to-date.

This discussion is assuming a complexity that I didn't at first suspect. I
found to my surprise that bash and tcsh interpret port list R* differently.
bash seems to pass the R* argument unaltered to port. But tcsh attempts an
immediate expansion of R* before handing over to port.

I am still unable to track down the other difference, in that on my machine,
the argument following "port list" seems to be dealt with in a
case-insensitive manner, and on Chris's machine seems to be dealt with in a
case-sensitive manner. Using interactive mode for port simplifies by
removing potentially complex interactions with the shell. However, for me,
the case-insensitivity remains. Perhaps this is due to some different
configuration setting. Or maybe it's a difference between Leopard and Tiger.
Since, thanks to this thread, I now have several ways of dealing with these
searches efficiently, I don't think it's worthwhile investigating the matter
further. However, if someone knows why there's this difference, without
having to spend time on it, it would be interesting to know the answer.
David
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