On Jan 28, 2021, at 06:13, Janosch Peters wrote:
>> yesterday I requested a port of Munt’s mt32emu library
>> (munt.sourceforge.net) at https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62166 and just
>> added a working portfile
>> https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/62166/Portfile.
>
> Could you please create a pull request on GitHub for this? This method of
> contribution is „strongly preferred“ over trac tickets. See
> https://guide.macports.org/chunked/project.contributing.html.
If you can make a pull request that's great, but portfiles and/or patchfiles
attached to ticket are still accepted.
>> What I didn’t manage to do:
>>
>> - *kind of* had to hard code the master_sites link. I noticed other projects
>> use “sourceforge:project/projectname” but however I did this it either did
>> not find anything or grabbed a webpage.
I've provided the correct value to use in your ticket.
> The code for munt is also hosted on GitHub. I recommend using the GitHub port
> group which works very well in my experience. By doing that, you don’t need
> to configure master_sites and as a bonus you get the live check out of the
> box. See https://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.portgroup.html for more
> information.
Note that projects using sourceforge master_sites also get a default and
often-working livecheck out of the box.
Using the github portgroup for software hosted at GitHub is indeed recommended.
As to whether the download should be from GitHub or SourceForge, you'd have to
compare the two distfiles and see if they're sufficiently equivalent.
