configure step downloading resources - supported on buildbots?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 6, 2023, at 05:46, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> Exploring Audacity's latest code I notice it requires the conan package manager nowadays, for building "vendored" libraries. A number of those aren't in MacPorts.
> 
> From what I've seen this downloaded stuff goes into `build.dir` but I seem to recall that the build bots don't support downloading things during the build. Is that correct and still the case?

You can download things during a build, but it is strongly discouraged.