#44700: Request: download-friendly installer package URLs -----------------------------+------------------------- Reporter: george@… | Owner: skarulkar@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: server/hosting | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | -----------------------------+------------------------- Changes (by ryandesign@…): * cc: ryandesign@… (added) Comment:
I was wondering if you could please add download-friendly URLs for the installer, on the website. For example
I'm not opposed to adding redirecting "download current version" routes to the new MacPorts web site I'm developing. That's probably the simplest solution, since it wouldn't involve needing to bother the Mac OS Forge admins every time we release a new version of MacPorts.
(off-topic: Given a certain major os version, say 10.8, how sensitive is an installation of the same port to different versions of the installer, anyway?)
I'm not certain I understand the question. If you're asking if it's possible for a port to build successfully under one version of OS X and fail under a different version, the answer is yes, absolutely, for any number of reasons. Or are you asking if ports might fail to build under old versions of MacPorts? The answer to that is definitely yes; we don't support running anything older than the current stable version of MacPorts. New versions of MacPorts introduce new features; ports are updated to use those new features, making those ports incompatible with older versions of MacPorts that don't understand those features. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44700#comment:5> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X