txt2html

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-12-16 at 07:53:41 UTC-0500 (Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:53:41 -0500)
Dan Hinckley <dbh at suiattle.org>
is rumored to have said:

> The version at MacPorts is 1.35, which I have installed, but it fails 
> with:
>
>> $* is no longer supported as of Perl 5.30 at /opt/local/bin/txt2html 
>> line 1587
>
> The current version is 2.51, which can be downloaded from Sourceforge 
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/txt2html/files/>. Does txt2html have 
> a maintainer (I don't know how to check that)?

It has none:

	$ port info txt2html
	txt2html @1.35 (textproc)

	Description:   txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to 
HTML.
	               It supports headings, lists, simple character markup,
	               hyperlinking,and is highly customizable. It recognizes 
some of
	               the structure of the source document (whitespace, 
typographic
	               layout, etc.), and attempts to mark that structure 
explicitly
	               using HTML.
	Homepage:      http://www.aigeek.com/txt2html/

	Platforms:     any
	License:       BSD
	Maintainers:   none


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.


-- 
Bill Cole
bill at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo at toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com 
addresses)
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