selfupdate fails trying to synch with openmodelica (!)

[Adam Dershowitz]

On July 9, 2014 7:15:21 PM EDT, Jerry <lanceboyle at qwest.net> wrote:
>
>On Jul 9, 2014, at 6:15 AM, Adam Dershowitz Ph.D., P.E.
><dersh at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> It seems that the openmodelica.org is back up, so the sync should
>work again (at least it does for me)
>
>Problem solved when openmodelica.org came back.
>
>Maybe someday the openmodelica folks could make an official port file
>for macports instead of dumping a GB load on people's disk which
>duplicates in most cases stuff that they already have.
>
>Thanks, everyone.
>
>Jerry
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I don't think those are related.  They made a port file, they just keep it on their own server.  If they moved the port, and all the files to macport.org, that would not change the size of the download.  There are some required dependencies  and they get installed when you install it.  That would not change with an "official" port.
The only change is then installation would be slightly easier, since the port is in macports already.  

--Adam
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