macports or meld issue?

[Jeremy Lavergne]

>>> Not impressed with your download speeds.
>> 
>> You can thank Apple for crippling their servers: they promise to fix them--one day. In the mean time, you probably downloaded from a mirror overseas.
> 
> is it just the archives mirror where we don't have one in the US?
> 
> Do we know what the current mirror size requirements are? I just upgraded my colocated host, so I can probably host a well-connected US mirror (at least until Apple can get their act together on this), if that would be helpful.

From what I saw, there are no mirrored binary archives for meld.

So he likely downloaded the source (412K) from some unfortunate location.