ideas 3

[Oliver Eikemeier]

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