Removing mport:// sources (Was: Re: Removing port submit)

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon Aug 19 16:20:39 PDT 2013


On 2013-8-20 01:11 , Clemens Lang wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:04:05PM +0100, Clemens Lang wrote:
>> Since I'm not aware of a running instance of such a server, removing
>> this code should only affect third parties that are still using this
>> feature for their own private repositories. I doubt there are any,
>> which is why I'd like to propose to remove this without deprecation
>> phase (but I can add a message telling users that this method of
>> syncing is no longer supported).
> 
> Done in r109659.

Please revert the part that breaks the ability to install directly from
a remote archive.

- Josh


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