<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I had a bit for free time this morning and submitted a proposed pull request to update txt2html to version 2.51:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27115">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27115</a><br><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>-ranga</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 16, 2024, at 5:48 AM, Bill Cole <macportsusers-20171215@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><p dir="auto">On 2024-12-16 at 07:53:41 UTC-0500 (Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:53:41 -0500)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Dan Hinckley <<a href="mailto:dbh@suiattle.org" style="color: rgb(57, 131, 196);">dbh@suiattle.org</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>is rumored to have said:</p></div><blockquote class="embedded" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div id="304F8A42-E8EC-4800-91C5-2228391B8934"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">The version at MacPorts is 1.35, which I have installed, but it fails with:<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size: 19px;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">$* is no longer supported as of Perl 5.30 at /opt/local/bin/txt2html line 1587</span></div></blockquote><br></div><div>The current version is 2.51, which can be downloaded from <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/txt2html/files/">Sourceforge</a>. Does txt2html have a maintainer (I don't know how to check that)?</div></div></div></blockquote><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><p dir="auto"><br>It has none:</p><p dir="auto">$ port info txt2html<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>txt2html @1.35 (textproc)</p><p dir="auto">Description: txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>It supports headings, lists, simple character markup,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>hyperlinking,and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>the structure of the source document (whitespace, typographic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>layout, etc.), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>using HTML.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Homepage:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.aigeek.com/txt2html/" style="color: rgb(57, 131, 196);">http://www.aigeek.com/txt2html/</a></p><p dir="auto">Platforms: any<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>License: BSD<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Maintainers: none</p><br><p dir="auto">I have found that opening a ticket in the project's Trac system (or opening a pull request on the Github repo if you have a working fix) attracts the attention of the core team, who rapidly address anything that's not too arcane, even in ports with no current maintainer. The txt2html portfile looks extremely simple, so I expect that the update requires nothing more than updating the version and the hash of the new version's distribution package.</p><br></div><div id="391C2EDB-51F2-44BE-8BBE-77E1377A3737" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><pre> <a href="mailto:bill@scconsult.com">bill@scconsult.com</a> or <a href="mailto:billcole@apache.org">billcole@apache.org</a>
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