Publishing links to non-encrypted websites for MacPorts downloads

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Sep 26 04:26:26 UTC 2019



On Sep 25, 2019, at 00:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> I already mentioned this in the past, but I would like to repeat.
> When someone opens our homepage and wants to download MacPorts using
> Safari on, say, 10.6, the download link from GitHub doesn't work, and
> it's not trivial for users to find out the alternative link
> (http://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/).
> 
> Could we please publish both links to download MacPorts on our homepage?

When Joshua releases a new version, he tags the release on GitHub and uploads the files there, and switches the links on our web site to point to GitHub. When I download the files to our distfiles server, I switch the links on the web site back to our distfiles server. Is that not sufficient?




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