output like "port list all" over the web?

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 8:14 PM Christopher Chavez <chrischavez at gmx.us>
wrote:

>
> > On Aug 4, 2019, at 7:32 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > That got me to wondering if there's a way to get the equivalent of "port
> list all", all on one page, over the web; for someone that might not want to
> > install MacPorts, but wanted to see what its current versions of all its
> packages were (and perhaps even generate feedback on availability of newer
> > packages), that might be useful.
> >
> > I can get that on https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=all but that's
> not all on one page, and it has a lot of other stuff that makes it more
> difficult
> > to consume as machine-readable.
>
> I’m just another user, but such a page containing all 21000+ ports sounds
> like an easy way to hang or crash the user's browser, so whatever links to
> it should probably warn "huge page--might crash your browser". I don't
> quite see how the complete listing is useful to a human (except maybe
> someone who likes reading the dictionary or the phone book for fun), so
> maybe only a plaintext and/or machine-readable format is sufficient.
>

So will it be sufficient to simply run "port list all" on the current
stable MacPorts package, as a frequent automatic process?  Capture the text
result and put it in a public downloadable location.
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