On 29.12.19 10:50, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Saturday December 28 2019 21:51:07 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> If I understood the patch correctly, it adds a fallback so that if fetching >> via the curl library fails, then it tries fetching via the curl command line >> program. To my knowledge MacPorts has never had code for using the curl >> command line program, only the curl library. > > It does, and if it didn't then I guess this snippet must have been proposed > during a discussion on a mailing list, or maybe it had already been > contributed. > > Either way, the idea makes sense even if the implementation leaves to be > desired, no?
I see no reason for such a fallback. We use libcurl, why should we duplicate the code to additionally support curl? The real problem here is that your operating system is out of date and cannot communicate with servers that require modern crypto. Going forward, this will affect many more applications and not only MacPorts. See also: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516 Rainer
