txt2html

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

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.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/71566


On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:26 AM Sriranga Veeraraghavan via macports-users <
macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had a bit for free time this morning and submitted a proposed pull
> request to update txt2html to version 2.51:
>
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27115
>
> Best,
> -ranga
>
> On Dec 16, 2024, at 5:48 AM, Bill Cole <
> macportsusers-20171215 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
>
> 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 at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
>    (AKA @grumpybozo at toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
>    Not Currently Available For Hire
>
>
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