n 17 Dec, 2024, at 13:43, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-users
<macports-users@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@lists.macports.org
> <mailto: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
> <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
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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/ <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.
>>
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>> <mailto:billc...@apache.org>
>> (AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social <mailto:grumpybozo@toad.social> and many
>> *@billmail.scconsult.com <http://billmail.scconsult.com/> addresses)
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Interestingly, on my Kali Linux VM running on the Mac mini M+, txt2html reports
version 3.
