[MacPorts] #55455: github portgroup: ability to download files from more than one github project

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Thu Dec 7 05:23:58 UTC 2017


#55455: github portgroup: ability to download files from more than one github
project
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  Reporter:  ryandesign   |      Owner:
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
      Port:               |
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 Replying to [comment:4 mojca]:
 > I was looking for other tickets (I'm sure there are some other relevant
 ones, I just couldn't find them right now).
 >
 > As you already noted, apart from the ability to fetch from multiple
 GitHub projects, MacPorts suffers an equally big problems that one cannot:
 > * download and extract files of different type (`.tar.gz` and `.zip` for
 example)
 > * fetch from one git and one subversion repository
 > * fetch some parts from subversion and some parts from tarball ... or
 basically any other combination of those
 >
 > It would be nice to find a way to combine an arbitrary number of
 fetching types.

 True, but I don't consider that in-scope for this ticket.

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