txt2html

[Dan Hinckley]

n 17 Dec, 2024, at 13:43, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <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 <mailto: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 <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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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/ <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 <mailto:bill at scconsult.com> or billcole at apache.org <mailto:billcole at apache.org>
>>    (AKA @grumpybozo at toad.social <mailto:grumpybozo at toad.social> and many *@billmail.scconsult.com <http://billmail.scconsult.com/> addresses)
>>    Not Currently Available For Hire
Interestingly, on my Kali Linux VM running on the Mac mini M+, txt2html reports version 3.
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