squash and merge, license documentation, "size" documentation

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Aug 21 12:58:07 UTC 2018


On 2018-8-18 06:06 , Clemens Lang wrote:
> I think the idea of the size keyword is to start to use it to display
> download progress bars for servers that do not send a Content-Length
> HTTP header (or do not have an equivalent of such a header due to the
> used protocol). This is currently not implemented.
> 
> 'port -v checksums' does generate the size field in newer versions of
> MacPorts. Until such a version becomes the released default, I think
> it's fine not to require adding it in PRs.

Not accepting PRs until they add it is certainly not a good approach.
Recommend using it in all the docs, certainly. But don't put extra
burden on both contributors and reviewers for the sake of an
unimplemented minor feature.

- Josh


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