Paul Fultz II

> I see. What would be the least ugly and most functional workaroung then? I dont know details about the project so maybe I am missing something, but the best...

Projects need to provide downloadable sources, this is very common practice for projects with open-source distributions(all projects in Debian can be downloaded as source tarballs and built). As a workaround...

This can break composibility. If libraryA uses recipes1, and libraryB uses recipes2 and libraryA, this can cause conflicts, if recipes1 and recipes2 contain the same recipe. Currently, you can't override...

> Hello, could you please tell me how can I use your library from behind a proxy? What kind of proxy? > however this doesn't Do you have direct access...

It doesn't use git, it just downloads the tarballs from `https://github.com/pfultz2/cget-recipes/archive/master.tar.gz`. Is that url not accessible?

I am not sure why its sending 500, for a redirect it should send 302. [Here](https://github.com/pfultz2/cget/blob/master/cget/prefix.py#L203) is the line the that creates the github url. You could change it to...

I am thinking something like doing: * `cget install gh/jgm/cmark` for github * `cget install bb/jgm/cmark` for bitbucket * `cget install gl/jgm/cmark` for gitlab This actually downloads the source tarballs,...

> What are your thoughts on switching to a uri? I think it will make it harder to have recipes override it. Also, the logic for checking if a dependency...

On fedora there is also: ``` gcc: error: /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1: No such file or directory ``` Which can be solved by installing the redhat-rpm-config package.

Interesting, I've never thought of a use case for non-local sources for the build command, so I have never tested. Let me look into fixing this. However, for it to...