On 2018-03-06, at 7:22 AM, G Alexander wrote: > I like the auto calculate hashes > > For grabbing something from url sounds like having a lot of switches, > > for archive type and depedencies >
I was kinda hoping that the archive type might be figured out from the tail of the URL. All the use_bzip2 yes business if plenty confusing for people. Even the whole idea of master_sites and distnames takes getting used to. dependencies would have to be manually specified. A basic template could be laid down for them, however, in the generated Portfile. > what if link is a redirect to cdn, or something like Dropbox or symbolic > some things would have to be manually done, unless AI can sort this out in ways I don't know how to do... K
