Support .dmg disk images as distfiles with new use_dmg option

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 06:05, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> I'd like MacPorts to support distfiles in .dmg disk image format,  
> in addition to the .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats currently  
> supported.
>
> I spent some time working on this tonight and came up with an  
> implementation that works for me. It's my first bit of hacking in  
> MacPorts base, though, so I'd appreciate any and all feedback, both  
> on the idea and the implementation.
>
> Here's the ticket, which includes the patch:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13509
>
> Thanks.

I got one comment in the ticket from Maun Suang. Any other comments  
from anyone? Anyone else interested in this feature? Anyone think  
this is a bad idea? Anyone indifferent to it?