On Jul 26, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
The best answer I have right now is to file a Trac ticket and attach the files. In my opinion, this has some benefits over just allowing uploads to distfiles.m.o, but it does feel a little hacky. -Bill _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
