www/joomla3 port installs from GitHub, why?

[Larry Rosenman]

Because that is the way I inherited it.  

I may look into changing it, but if you generate a patch, I'll look at it. 


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On 5/20/18, 12:38 PM, "Eugene Grosbein" <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:

    20.05.2018 18:52, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
    
    > I am curious as to why the www/joomla3 port installs from GitHub, looks
    > like the port is better for Joomla code development than to run a CMS.
    > 
    > There are LOTS of files in the port install that is not needed to run
    > Joomla.
    > 
    > I thought the recommended way is to fetch the latest version from
    > joomla.org:
    > 
    > https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-8-7/Joomla_3-8-7-Stable-Full_Package.zip?format=zip
    > 
    > 
    > Can someone please enlighten me here?
    
    You should ask port maintainer ler at FreeBSD.org (CC'd).