On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 8:14 PM Christopher Chavez <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. > So will it be sufficient to simply run "port list all" on the current stable MacPorts package, as a frequent automatic process? Capture the text result and put it in a public downloadable location.
