On 2019-3-28 10:17 , Renee Otten wrote: > I am looking for some advice on how to deal with a port that will only > download a large data set (~5GB), > see https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/3904. I assume we do > not necessarily want to have that stored on the MacPorts distfile > mirrors… correct? One way to accomplish this, I think, is to make it > non-distributable, even though the license would allow so. Is there a > preferred way of doing this or are there no concerns with a port like this?
Does this single data file need to be managed by MacPorts at all? Adding a note telling users where to download it from and where to put it might be fine. As a port, even if it's not mirrored, it's still going to be taking up gigabytes per OS version on the builders and in the private archives. - Josh
