Re: ideas 3

[Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed wrote:

> I would suggest to promote the broad adoption of bzip2 format for [...] 
> distfiles.

I guess you can't control this, you have to take what is offered.

> Now that you are working on pkg management tools I'd like to see a 
> special
> focus on HTTP only transfers. FTP is a big problem for firewall and 
> NATted
> users (especially active ftp) and also needs a lot of sockets on the 
> server.
>
> I'd like to see HTTP as default method to fetch distfiles [...].

Again: for distfiles you have to use whatever is offered. You can use 
MASTER_SORT_REGEX to prefer HTTP transfers, but some distfiles are only 
available via ftp.

-Oliver