On Saturday December 28 2019 21:51:07 Ryan Schmidt wrote: >If I understood the patch correctly, it adds a fallback so that if fetching >via the curl library fails, then it tries fetching via the curl command line >program. To my knowledge MacPorts has never had code for using the curl >command line program, only the curl library.
It does, and if it didn't then I guess this snippet must have been proposed during a discussion on a mailing list, or maybe it had already been contributed. Either way, the idea makes sense even if the implementation leaves to be desired, no? R.