[66441] trunk/dports/editors

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 13, 2010, at 12:21, David Baumgold wrote:

> Because the download link is "http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658" exactly: the HTTP header instructs the browser to save the file as "NERD_tree.zip". I didn't see any way for the Macports configuration to handle this, but if there is, I'd love to get rid of this terrible hack.

We have several ports exemplifying a method for dealing with this situation. It's also written up in PortfileRecipes:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#fetchwithgetparams


> Jeremy: Is checksumming normally taken care of in the fetch phase? I thought it was its own separate phase, and so overriding fetch would leave the checksum step untouched.

You're right, checksumming happens in the checksum phase, which is untouched by overriding the fetch phase.


> Also, is there a way to change where my @macports.org email address forwards to? I can't seem to reply using my @macports.org address from that account, so I had to forward the message to my Gmail.

I'm not sure if we have an interface for changing that, but you can send an email to our server admin, admin at macosforge.org, to have it changed manually.