Add gitlab.com into bsd.sites.mk

[Torsten Zuehlsdorff]

On 21.08.2017 16:48, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Le 20/08/2017 à 23:16, Derek Schrock a écrit :
>> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 04:28:01PM EDT, L.Bartoletti wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would suggest to add gitlab.com into bsd.sites.mk
>>>
>>> Since, I think I am not competent to propose a patch, I ask for help.
>>>
>>> I have ports to create where the sources are only available on GitLab.
>>> Like some other ports (audio/midi-matrix-lv2, audio/moony-lv2, etc.) I
>>> can fetch source using a direct link. But, it may be nice to have this
>>> possibility.
>>>
>>> As I can see, it can be similar (and maybe easier) than github.
>>>
>>> Archive can be dowload by this URL:
>>> https://gitlab.com/${GL_ACCOUNT}/${GL_PROJECT}/repository/${GL_TAGNAME}/archive.${EXTRACT_SUFX}
>>>
>>> ${EXTRACT_SUFX} can be zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2 and tar
>>>
>>> Is anyone already working on it or do you want to do it with me?
>> Assuming gitlab remains API compatible with github.  I'm wondering if
>> gitlab.com, github.com, and gitlab hosted site support can be merged
>> into a single set of vars.
> 
> You can stop here, because they are not compatible.  They do not differ
> greatly, but enough. The gitlab API is akin to the previous github API
> where the commit hash was required.
> A USE_GITLAB is currently being worked on, though.

Do you know who works on it? I didn't see anything like it, but it would 
be handy for me. Maybe i could help.

Greetings,
Torsten