fox 1.2.13

[Mark Duling]

Luc Lefebvre <ll at aei.ca> on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at 4:30 PM -0800
wrote:
>I have run into difficulties in instaling fox (goal is to install  
>freeride).  I have MacPorts/Darwinports 1.320 installed.  When I try  
>to install fox I get:
>
>sudo port install fox
>--->  Fetching fox
>--->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://www.fox- 
>toolkit.org/ftp/
>--->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
>od.opendarwin.org/fox
>--->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
>msn.opendarwin.org/fox
>--->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
>bay13.opendarwin.org/fox
>--->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
>od.opendarwin.org/
>--->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
>msn.opendarwin.org/
>--->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
>bay13.opendarwin.org/
>Error: Target com.apple.fetch returned: fetch failed
>Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
>When I check the fox ftp site (http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ftp/) I  
>note that fox 1.2.13 is not listed (1.2.18 is though).  Does this  
>mean that if the porfile were to be updated to require 1.2.18 that  
>all would work (I suspect that there are only minor bugfixes between  
>the 2 versions) unless 1.2.13 was  a typo and 1.2.18 was the version  
>intended all along.
>
>I have tried posting to bugreports and emailing the maintainer but  
>haven't had much success yet.  Any advice as to what I can/should do  
>woud be much appreciated.

I'm pretty sure the maintainer for fox is around anymore, so I updated it
to 1.2.13.  For fun I tried 1.7.7 but it failed to build.  After rsync
catches up a selfupdate will show 1.2.13.

Mark