Adding a semicolon in descriptions gives unexpected result

[ornstedt@…]

When adding a semicolon in description you will get curly brackets added to the word or whole description depending on your quotation.

Example Portfile: description "A frontend ; to mythtv." pre-patch { puts $description }

$ port patch mythtv Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state. ---> Fetching mythtv ---> Verifying checksum(s) for mythtv ---> Extracting mythtv {A frontend ; to mythtv.} ---> Applying patches to mythtv

[ornstedt@…]

description A frontend \; to mythtv.

Gives this result: A frontend {;} to mythtv.

However this also give a strange result description "A frontend to mythtv."

Result: {A frontend ; to mythtv.}

[blb@…]

Since the semicolon is a special character for Tcl (and a Portfile is a fancy Tcl script), I'm not really sure there's anything which can be done for this, other than avoid the use of semicolons.

[jberry@…]

I agree with blb. This is a function of the territory (Tcl) that we chose to live in. It's led us to some pretty cool functionality, but with a few odd quirks....this being one of them.

Resolving as "won't fix".