On 2013-7-26 23:41 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2013, at 4:17 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> distfiles.m.o is for source code archives. You cannot manually upload 
>> anything there, but you can ask the macosforge admin to do so. However there 
>> should be no need to, assuming you can put the distfiles anywhere else on 
>> the Internet and point the portfile to that location via the master_sites. 
>> Before you do so, ensure that the license agreement allows you to do so. And 
>> assuming it does, please work with the developers of the software to make it 
>> available via a direct link from their site.
> 
> 
> this seems /way/ less useful than when we used to put distfiles into svn.
> 
> Giving committers a place to upload files (again) would be super useful.

I agree. We've previously talked about setting up a way of doing this,
but it seems it hasn't been able to happen for one reason or another.

- Josh
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