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 _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
