<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2018-03-06, at 7:22 AM, G Alexander wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I like the auto calculate hashes<br><br>For grabbing something from url sounds like having a lot of switches, <br><br>for archive type and depedencies<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was kinda hoping that the archive type might be figured out from the tail of the URL. All the use_bzip2 yes business if plenty confusing for people. Even the whole idea of master_sites and distnames takes getting used to.</div><div><br></div><div>dependencies would have to be manually specified. A basic template could be laid down for them, however, in the generated Portfile.</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>what if link is a redirect to cdn, or something like Dropbox or symbolic<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><br></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>some things would have to be manually done, unless AI can sort this out in ways I don't know how to do...</div><div><br></div><div>K</div><br></body></html>