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@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-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > > On 2024-12-16 at 07:53:41 UTC-0500 (Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:53:41 -0500) > Dan Hinckley <d...@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. > > b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org > (AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Not Currently Available For Hire > >
