Possible to implement resumable port fetch?

[Sergey Fedorov]

Is it something trivially doable or is it gonna require some rewrites?

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM Ryan Carsten Schmidt <
ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On Mar 24, 2025, at 09:23, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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