On Saturday December 28 2019 14:10:29 Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> but don't understand why the fallback doesn't work on Mac. Maybe a different >> exception is raised there? >> >> Anyway, I think the fallback makes sense in this kind of situation, and it >> should handle bootstrap errors gracefully. That is, if port:curl isn't yet >> installed the system curl will be found. > >I don't want to debug any custom changes you've made to MacPorts base.
I'm not asking you to but I'm quite certain this is a reintroduction of code that was removed for some reason. It doesn't look like how I'd have written it (I wouldn't have bothered with an exception filter). R.
