Publishing links to non-encrypted websites for MacPorts downloads

Mojca Miklavec mojca at macports.org
Thu Sep 26 06:22:01 UTC 2019


On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 07:19, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2019, at 00:04, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> > I ended up navigating to
> >    https://www.macports.org/install.php#installing
> > which points to
> >    https://github.com/macports/macports-base/releases/download/v2.6.0/MacPorts-2.6.0-10.6-SnowLeopard.pkg
> > which doesn't work on 10.6 without some additional software being
> > installed first.
> >
> > Now, the file is already at
> >    http://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.6.0-10.6-SnowLeopard.pkg
> > which I remembered from the last time, but I don't see any link to it
> > (I'm not saying there's not one, but if it is, it's definitely not
> > obvious to users).
>
> It's because I fail at git again. I pushed the change to my fork instead of the main repo. I've pushed it to the main repo now.

Thank you.

> > (PS: we need a big visible Download button on the first page at some point ...)
>
> There's a download button at the top right of every page.
>
> Yes, we need to redesign the web site. I believe you already showed me somebody else's redesign, which looked good.

... and we should pick up that thread again :)

    https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2019-May/040674.html

Mojca


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