<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Thanks for letting me know about a newer version on GitHub! I updated my pull request to use that version. Apparently there is a version on meta::cpan as well, but it seems to be quite old (version 2.02), so I used the version on GitHub:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://metacpan.org/release/RUBYKAT/txt2html-2.02">https://metacpan.org/release/RUBYKAT/txt2html-2.02</a><br><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>-ranga</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 17, 2024, at 11:06 AM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-users <macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">"resurrecting-open-source-projects". I love it!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:02 PM Dan Hinckley <<a href="mailto:dbh@suiattle.org">dbh@suiattle.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Forgot to add, the txt2html man page on that Kali VM lists the same authors as 2.5x<div><br></div><div><div>txt2html --version </div><div>/usr/bin/txt2html version: 3.0</div><div><br></div><div><div>AUTHOR</div><div> Kathryn Andersen (RUBYKAT)</div><div> perlkat AT katspace dot com</div><div> http//<a href="http://www.katspace.com/" target="_blank">www.katspace.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div> based on txt2html by Seth Golub</div><div><br></div><div> Current homepage is <a href="https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/txt2html" target="_blank">https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/txt2html</a></div><div><br></div><div>COPYRIGHT</div><div> Original txt2html script Copyright (c) 1994-2000 Seth Golub seth AT <a href="http://aigeek.com/" target="_blank">aigeek.com</a></div><div> Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Kathryn Andersen</div><div> Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Joao Eriberto Mota Filho</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 17 Dec, 2024, at 13:56, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-users <<a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org" target="_blank">macports-users@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Good spot, thanks. Worth looking into, IMO.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:53 AM Dan Hinckley <<a href="mailto:dbh@suiattle.org" target="_blank">dbh@suiattle.org</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">> Interestingly, on my Kali Linux VM running on the Mac mini M+, txt2html reports version 3.</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">On 17 Dec, 2024, at 13:43, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-users <<a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org" target="_blank">macports-users@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Ranga, thanks for the PR. There is an open trac ticket. A version newer than 2.51 is suggested. Do whatever version you think is best.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/71566" target="_blank">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/71566</a><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:26 AM Sriranga Veeraraghavan via macports-users <<a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org" target="_blank">macports-users@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="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" target="_blank">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27115</a><br><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>-ranga</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 16, 2024, at 5:48 AM, Bill Cole <<a href="mailto:macportsusers-20171215@billmail.scconsult.com" target="_blank">macportsusers-20171215@billmail.scconsult.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><div style="white-space:normal;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;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> </span><br>Dan Hinckley <<a href="mailto:dbh@suiattle.org" style="color:rgb(57,131,196)" target="_blank">dbh@suiattle.org</a>><span> </span><br>is rumored to have said:</p></div><blockquote 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;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div id="m_6567710148631862001m_4396655461813574793m_-3977555070292139052304F8A42-E8EC-4800-91C5-2228391B8934"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">The version at MacPorts is 1.35, which I have installed, but it fails with:<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">$* is no longer supported as of Perl 5.30 at /opt/local/bin/txt2html line 1587</span></div></blockquote></div><div>The current version is 2.51, which can be downloaded from <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/txt2html/files/" target="_blank">Sourceforge</a>. Does txt2html have a maintainer (I don't know how to check that)?</div></div></div></blockquote><div style="white-space:normal;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><p dir="auto">It has none:</p><p dir="auto">$ port info txt2html<span> </span><br>txt2html @1.35 (textproc)</p><p dir="auto">Description: txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML.<span> </span><br>It supports headings, lists, simple character markup,<span> </span><br>hyperlinking,and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of<span> </span><br>the structure of the source document (whitespace, typographic<span> </span><br>layout, etc.), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly<span> </span><br>using HTML.<span> </span><br>Homepage:<span> </span><span> </span><a href="http://www.aigeek.com/txt2html/" style="color:rgb(57,131,196)" target="_blank">http://www.aigeek.com/txt2html/</a></p><p dir="auto">Platforms: any<span> </span><br>License: BSD<span> </span><br>Maintainers: none</p><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></div><div id="m_6567710148631862001m_4396655461813574793m_-3977555070292139052391C2EDB-51F2-44BE-8BBE-77E1377A3737" style="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;text-decoration:none"><pre> <a href="mailto:bill@scconsult.com" target="_blank">bill@scconsult.com</a> or <a href="mailto:billcole@apache.org" target="_blank">billcole@apache.org</a>
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