On 2018-08-18 09:53, Jan Stary wrote: > On Aug 17 22:06:13, c...@macports.org wrote: >> I think the idea of the size keyword is to start to use it to display >> download progress bars for servers that do not send a Content-Length >> HTTP header (or do not have an equivalent of such a header due to the >> used protocol). > > How many of the total number of ports have their distfiles served > by such servers? Would it be simpler to just not display a progress bar > in those cases, as opposed to introducing another keyword?
Yes, that is the current implementation. Specifying "size" is simple and might have a use case in the future. > If the idea is to help display a progress bar (please make it in color), > why is it a 'checksum'? We already have much beter checksums. Well, adding it at any other place would add more complexity and confusion. The file size is a checksum. > curl it the one doing the download. If it can display a progress bar, > it will. If not, please leave it like that. > >> This is currently not implemented. > > Reminds me of 'platforms'. Patches are still welcome... Rainer