txt2html

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

"resurrecting-open-source-projects".  I love it!


On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:02 PM Dan Hinckley <dbh at suiattle.org> wrote:

> Forgot to add, the txt2html man page on that Kali VM lists the same
> authors as 2.5x
>
> txt2html --version
>
> /usr/bin/txt2html version: 3.0
>
> AUTHOR
>            Kathryn Andersen (RUBYKAT)
>            perlkat AT katspace dot com
>            http//www.katspace.com/
>
>        based on txt2html by Seth Golub
>
>        Current homepage is
> https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/txt2html
>
> COPYRIGHT
>        Original txt2html script Copyright (c) 1994-2000 Seth Golub seth AT
> aigeek.com
>        Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Kathryn Andersen
>        Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
>
> On 17 Dec, 2024, at 13:56, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via
> macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
>
> 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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