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]
> <mailto:[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]
> <mailto:[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
>> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/71566>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:26 AM Sriranga Veeraraghavan via macports-users
>> <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[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
>> <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27115>
>>
>> Best,
>> -ranga
>>
>>> On Dec 16, 2024, at 5:48 AM, Bill Cole
>>> <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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/ <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] <mailto:[email protected]> or [email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> (AKA @[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> and many
>>> *@billmail.scconsult.com <http://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.
