Dealing with a click-through license

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 24, 2018, at 19:44, Randolph M. Fritz wrote:

> It's Radiance. It is hard to change, perhaps not possible at all. Is there any way MacPorts can accommodate this, perhaps as a source-only port?
> 
> What do people think?


You are referring to a software project whose web site makes you agree to a license agreement before offering you a download file?

If so, there are several possibilities. Of course MacPorts cannot deal with such a multistep download situation, so try to discover whether it can be circumvented. For example, if you manually fill out the form, and you get the file, you can see what URL the file was downloaded from (by getting info on it in the Finder, for example). Can you download the file using curl on the command line using that same URL, without having completed the form? If so, you can use that URL in the Portfile. Or, now that you know the filename, can you find the same filename hosted elsewhere on the Internet? If so, and you've verified the checksums of the file at its original file and at the alternate location are identical, you can use that alternate URL in the Portfile.

I Googled "radiance download" and found a download link that was not encumbered by a click-though form, but maybe I found a different "radiance" than the one you're talking about,.