--On October 21, 2011 3:43:02 PM -0500 Ryan Schmidt
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Oct 21, 2011, at 08:40, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On Oct 21, 2011, at 3:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Oct 21, 2011, at 02:33, Andrea D'Amore wrote:
Even the URL to download the source is bad:
http://svn.sshkeychain.org/repos/tags/0.8.2
Don't we host it a tarball on macports repository in such a case?
Of course we do. http://distfiles.macports.org/ . Unfortunately
sshkeychain does not fetch a tarball; it fetches directly from the
project's subversion repository which is inaccessible along with
the rest of their web site.
I think Andrea was saying that in cases like this, if the port is
useful, we can just create a tarball and host it ourselves (which I
believe we have done in the past).
Yes, and we could do that. But if the site had really been completely
inaccessible, along with its repository, we would have no way now to
fetch the source in order to package it up as a tarball and host it.
One might view this as another reason why we shouldn't rely on
fetching from RCSs, possibly excepting well-known large hosting sites.
I just looked and SSHKeyChain still seems to be around. The source is
in GIT now instead of SVN, but it's still available at
<http://sshkeychain.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi>. The
project page at <http://sshkeychain.sourceforge.net/> is still there
too.
Mike
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