MacPorts 1.7.0 has been released

[Rainer Müller]

Bart Masschelein wrote:
> Well, appart from sth I don't know if it is a MacPorts issue. I did an  
> upgrade of my outdated ports, and iso-codes needed to be installed as  
> well apparantly. And it was waiting to fetch the source for half an  
> hour at least, waiting on:
> 
> --->  Attempting to fetch iso-codes-3.5.tar.bz2 from ftp://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-isocodes/
> 
> I Ctrl-C-ed, and re-issued an update, and then it went smooth again.

There have been download issues with alioth.debian.org before. But as
the new distfile mirroring is in place, it should not happen often
anymore. port uses now ping-based mirror selection and will also
automatically try distfiles.macports.org.

Rainer