Uploading a source file to packages.macports.org

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jul 27, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>> I agree. We've previously talked about setting up a way of doing this,
>>> but it seems it hasn't been able to happen for one reason or another.
>> 
>> Is it something that someone outside of portmgr/macosforge can assist with?
> 
> Seems to me all that's needed is a site somewhere on the Internet that lets you upload a file, maybe via a web form, and republishes it at a predictable URL that can be put into master_sites. Might be nice if the site were part of the MacPorts web site, but there's no technical reason why it would have to be.

sure, but it would be good for the project if it were and it would be nice if we didn't have to have two sets of people managing logins/access control for macports committers.

> If the server this site was on was configured to not respond to pings,

ick.

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Daniel J. Luke                                                                   
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