Show URL in "port info"

[FranklinYu (Franklin Yu)]

Homebrew shows URL of a formula in brew info. It would be cool if MacPorts shows similar things. For example, when I do port info giflib I would like to see

port URL: https://ports.macports.org/port/giflib/

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Not opposed to having a way to find this out, but it shouldn't be in the default output of port info.

[chrstphrchvz (Christopher Chavez)]

I don't think the functionality you suggest is necessarily a bad idea; I do something similar quite often by working on a local copy of the macports-ports repository, using the GitLens extension for Visual Studio Code and asking it to "open file on remote". But I don't know that it fits the existing scope of port info, whose output is based entirely on the contents of a portfile.

Some user would also find it useful if port info also displays path to local Portfile

This is already available from port file.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I don't know that I would necessarily display the Portfile's GitHub URL in the port info output. port info should be for users; the GitHub URL is for developers. Once the GSoC '19 MacPorts Web App is finished and deployed, we'll have user-facing pages for each port; we could display that URL in port info.

However, I do have a shell function set up on my own system which gives me a port gh command that opens a Portfile's GitHub URL, so I realize that this can be useful.

[FranklinYu (Franklin Yu)]

I don’t really care whether it’s in port info or port portfile-url; I just want some way to get it from CLI. Way faster than copy the name and paste it in ports.php.

[FranklinYu (Franklin Yu)]

Thank you. I updated description accordingly.

Replying to chrstphrchvz:

Some user would also find it useful if port info also displays path to local Portfile

This is already available from port file.