On 2013-7-31 03:44 , William Siegrist wrote:
> 
> 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. 

Another alternative is to ask any of the admins listed at
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/macports/> to upload your file there.
So, lots of ways to do it, just none as convenient as we'd ideally like.

- Josh
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