[x265] x265 download mirrors

[Andrey Semashev]

On 11/24/20 1:33 AM, ebalsley at pm.me wrote:
> I’d like to update MacPorts x265 to enable the 10-bit variant.  As I 
> started reading the docs and source code, I am confused about where is 
> the best place to obtain source code.  Currently MacPorts is using 
> https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x265/ 
> <https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x265/> but this is over a 
> year old with version 3.2.1.
> 
> First I checked http://x265.org/developers/ 
> <http://x265.org/developers/>.  This suggests downloading from 
> http://x265.org/downloads/ <http://x265.org/downloads/> but that link is 
> password protected.
> 
> I found this page https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git 
> <https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git>
> This shows version 3.5 is released, but the download page only has 
> tarballs through 3.3.

3.5 is not released, as there is no 3.5 tag. Release_3.5 is a branch 
where the upcoming 3.5 release is being prepared/maintained.

> GitHub has a tarball available for 3.4.
> https://github.com/videolan/x265/releases 
> <https://github.com/videolan/x265/releases>
> 
> Which URL would be the most stable to use in port file?

I believe, both https://github.com/videolan/x265/ and 
https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git are mirrors of the 
mercurial repository http://hg.videolan.org/x265. You can use whichever 
of them to obtain the code; just check out the release tag you need.

As to the tarballs, I think Bitbucket tarballs are manually uploaded by 
developers, so these are not up to date (there is still no 3.4 tarball). 
Tarballs on GitHub are automatically generated, so you could use those 
more or less reliably.