Possible to implement resumable port fetch?

Ryan Carsten Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Mar 24 17:28:01 UTC 2025


On Mar 24, 2025, at 09:23, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
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> On a slow connection downloading ports becomes a nightmare: MacPorts keeps dropping connection, and since fetch starts anew every time, it may take literally forever to proceed.
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> A lot of tools support resumable downloads. Is it possible to implement that?

libcurl, which MacPorts uses, supports that, so it should be possible. 


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