txt2html

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

Good spot, thanks.  Worth looking into, IMO.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:53 AM Dan Hinckley <dbh at suiattle.org> wrote:
> Interestingly, on my Kali Linux VM running on the Mac mini M+, txt2html
reports version 3.


On 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
>
>
> 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
>>
>> Interestingly, on my Kali Linux VM running on the Mac mini M+, txt2html
> reports version 3.
>
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