"resurrecting-open-source-projects". I love it!
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:02 PM Dan Hinckley <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgot to add, the txt2html man page on that Kali VM lists the same > authors as 2.5x > > txt2html --version > > /usr/bin/txt2html version: 3.0 > > AUTHOR > Kathryn Andersen (RUBYKAT) > perlkat AT katspace dot com > http//www.katspace.com/ > > based on txt2html by Seth Golub > > Current homepage is > https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/txt2html > > COPYRIGHT > Original txt2html script Copyright (c) 1994-2000 Seth Golub seth AT > aigeek.com > Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Kathryn Andersen > Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Joao Eriberto Mota Filho > > On 17 Dec, 2024, at 13:56, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via > macports-users <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >> > >
