Automatic homepage for sourceforge, googlecode, etc.

[Rainer Müller]

On 2009-08-22 21:29 , Scott Haneda wrote:
> Simplify the base code, or simplify the port files?  The port files  
> list a url, which I find highly readable, and also nice, because I can  
> easily know what that url is, and ping, curl, or http request it.

You would still be able to read the URL in 'port info' or use 'port
gohome' and don't worry about the URL at all.

> It seems to me the base MacPors code would only become more complex  
> (trivially), as now you have to maintain a mapping of master_sites to  
> names/url's.  Yes, it is a trivial mapping.

We already maintain such lists for fetch, so I don't think it would
become any more complex.

Rainer