Good spot, thanks. Worth looking into, IMO.
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:53 AM Dan Hinckley <[email protected]> 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 > <[email protected]> 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 > <[email protected]> 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 < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2024-12-16 at 07:53:41 UTC-0500 (Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:53:41 -0500) >> Dan Hinckley <[email protected]> >> 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. >> >> [email protected] or [email protected] >> (AKA @[email protected] 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. >
