Can not find py-pythoncad, after installing all dependencies

[aszy@…]

following is dump from a short run, after getting and setting all the dependencies.

Last login: Tue Oct  6 21:01:06 on ttyp2
Welcome to Darwin!
Gulliver:~ aszy$ sudo port install py-pythoncad
--->  Fetching py-pythoncad
--->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from http://distfiles.macports.org/python
--->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from http://www.pythoncad.org//releases/
--->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from http://arn.se.distfiles.macports.org/python
--->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/py-pythoncad
--->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
--->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/py-pythoncad
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

yet, the port search here shows that it exists. do I keep trying or is something amiss? Second related question : I now have versions 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 installed for various other macport installations, and with this attempt at installing py-pythoncad, I was told to make 2.4 the default version - does this seem reasonable? thanks

[blb@…]

It isn't find the source tarball, which isn't surprising since that version is very old (py-pythoncad was updated to DS1-R22 over 4.5 years ago). The reason for python24 is anything py-* prefixed wants 2.4, py25-* 2.5, py26-* 2.6 etc.

Probably the best thing would be for someone to make a python 2.6 version of this port and update it to the current release of pythoncad...however, since this port is unmaintained and I don't see any other tickets, you may be the first to have tried it in quite a while.