MacPorts from behind proxy servers & fetching the file directly

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 16 March 2018 at 17:42, Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2018-03-16 12:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> Umesh was only able to work on MacPorts because he was at home during summer.
>
> That sounds really drastic, but I do not think it is in reality. There
> are the alternatives for syncing the ports tree as listed above.
> Development on base does not need rsync in any way. Most people that end
> up hacking on base have usually contributed to the ports tree before and
> therefore are more likely to be using git already anyway.

Sure, for someone who has already been selected for GSOC there are
certainly ways to work around the system. But still ... for someone
who knows nothing about the system, installs it, runs selfupdate (as
instructed) which fails ... there's a huge probability that the user
will simply turn away to something that just works.

Mojca