On 2013-8-22 19:54 , Clemens Lang wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:28:45AM +0200, Rainer Müller wrote: >> Is this something we should recommend here? >> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort > > While it might make a nice addition for some niche requirements, I'm not > sure it would be very useful on the InstallingOlderPort page, because of > the limited applicability and the requirement of an existing binary > image. Also, the binary image is downloaded twice using this method - > while this might not matter for small archives, it certainly is an issue > for, e.g., qt4-mac.
The downloading twice thing is certainly suboptimal and no doubt it could be fixed. > Something not mentioned in this thread yet, but also possible, is > installing from a tarball that contains a port directory, e.g., > port install http://files.neverpanic.de/mpvim.tar. > We could use that feature to build a website that helps users to find an > older version of a port and gives them the correct URL to install it, > possibly generating the required tarballs on the fly. Yep, that's what portindex -a did. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
