<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">n 17 Dec, 2024, at 13:43, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-users <<a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org" class="">macports-users@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/71566" class="">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/71566</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><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" class="">macports-users@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had a bit for free time this morning and submitted a proposed pull request to update txt2html to version 2.51:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27115" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27115</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">-ranga</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 16, 2024, at 5:48 AM, Bill Cole <<a href="mailto:macportsusers-20171215@billmail.scconsult.com" target="_blank" class="">macportsusers-20171215@billmail.scconsult.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><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" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">On 2024-12-16 at 07:53:41 UTC-0500 (Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:53:41 -0500)<span class=""> </span><br class="">Dan Hinckley <<a href="mailto:dbh@suiattle.org" style="color:rgb(57,131,196)" target="_blank" class="">dbh@suiattle.org</a>><span class=""> </span><br class="">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" class=""><div id="m_-3977555070292139052304F8A42-E8EC-4800-91C5-2228391B8934" class=""><div style="line-break:after-white-space" class="">The version at MacPorts is 1.35, which I have installed, but it fails with:<div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;font-size:19px" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">$* is no longer supported as of Perl 5.30 at /opt/local/bin/txt2html line 1587</span></div></blockquote></div><div class="">The current version is 2.51, which can be downloaded from <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/txt2html/files/" target="_blank" class="">Sourceforge</a>. Does txt2html have a maintainer (I don't know how to check that)?</div></div></div></blockquote><div style="white-space:normal;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">It has none:</p><p dir="auto" class="">$ port info txt2html<span class=""> </span><br class="">txt2html @1.35 (textproc)</p><p dir="auto" class="">Description: txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML.<span class=""> </span><br class="">It supports headings, lists, simple character markup,<span class=""> </span><br class="">hyperlinking,and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of<span class=""> </span><br class="">the structure of the source document (whitespace, typographic<span class=""> </span><br class="">layout, etc.), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly<span class=""> </span><br class="">using HTML.<span class=""> </span><br class="">Homepage:<span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.aigeek.com/txt2html/" style="color:rgb(57,131,196)" target="_blank" class="">http://www.aigeek.com/txt2html/</a></p><p dir="auto" class="">Platforms: any<span class=""> </span><br class="">License: BSD<span class=""> </span><br class="">Maintainers: none</p><p dir="auto" class="">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_-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" class=""><pre class=""> <a href="mailto:bill@scconsult.com" target="_blank" class="">bill@scconsult.com</a> or <a href="mailto:billcole@apache.org" target="_blank" class="">billcole@apache.org</a>
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</div></blockquote></div>Interestingly, on my Kali Linux VM running on the Mac mini M+, txt2html reports version 3.</body></html>