> On Aug 4, 2019, at 7:32 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That got me to wondering if there's a way to get the equivalent of "port list
> all", all on one page, over the web; for someone that might not want to
> install MacPorts, but wanted to see what its current versions of all its
> packages were (and perhaps even generate feedback on availability of newer
> packages), that might be useful.
>
> I can get that on https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=all but that's not
> all on one page, and it has a lot of other stuff that makes it more difficult
> to consume as machine-readable.
I’m just another user, but such a page containing all 21000+ ports sounds like
an easy way to hang or crash the user's browser, so whatever links to it should
probably warn "huge page--might crash your browser". I don't quite see how the
complete listing is useful to a human (except maybe someone who likes reading
the dictionary or the phone book for fun), so maybe only a plaintext and/or
machine-readable format is sufficient.
Repology.org provides a similar paginated, searchable listing of ports
available in MacPorts, though mainly for comparing with different package
managers. They provide a REST API if you want machine-readable results, but it
will only return at most 200 results at a time.
Christopher Chavez
