make a tarball (.tar.gz is easiest with the ports system, otherwise you
must set EXTRACT_SUFX in the port's Makefile) and make it available
on an ftp or http server somewhere.

One thing I've done with several as-yet-uncommitted ports:
do-fetch does an svn export, but with a given revision number, so I can be
sure that patches apply.

This works nicely and has the benefit :-) of placing the server load on
the project that is unwilling to provide a tarball. Of course I only do
this after politely requesting that they build a tarball, and explaining
why it is in everybody's interest that they do so.

The only downside is that you don't benefit from tarball mirroring, so
if their server gets hosed (or hammered by too many people building the
port at the same time) you can lose.  So one could argue that hosting
your own tarball is better, if you have a high-bandwidth server.


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