Bug 245743

Summary:	www/elinks: update to 0.12?
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	WHR <msl0000023508>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	Beat Gaetzi <beat>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	jcfyecrayz, msl0000023508
Priority:	---	Keywords:	needs-patch
Version:	Latest	Flags:	bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (beat)
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description WHR 2020-04-19 15:14:09 UTC

The ELinks stable branch 0.11 is quiet old, and leaks many important featres, such as UTF-8 support.

Althouth 0.12 branch is still marked as 'unstable' offically, and only has prereleases available, those prereleases are already more than 10 years old. Most GNU/Linux distributions are already switched to 0.12 many years ago, and some of them even switched to 0.13 branch recently in their stable releases.

I always appreciating the ports tree that provides an easy way to build and install a wide range of programs, and yet flexible to configure them to fit local requirements (by port options).

But www/elinks is not the case, it is definitely not update-to-date for me.

Surely I can always build and install a newer version from source manually, but it would be very convenience to have that available from ports, especially when another port may depending on such version.

Comment 1 WHR 2020-04-19 15:19:56 UTC

diff:
-I always appreciating the ports tree that provides an easy way to build and install a wide range of programs, and yet flexible to configure them to fit local requirements (by port options).
+I always appreciating the ports tree that provides an easy way to build and install a wide range of update-to-date software, and yet flexible to configure them to fit local requirements (by port options).

Comment 2 WHR 2020-04-19 16:20:09 UTC

Diff to comment #0:
-I always appreciating the ports tree that provides an easy way to build and install a wide range of programs, and yet flexible to configure them to fit local requirements (by port options).
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-But www/elinks is not the case, it is definitely not update-to-date for me.
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+I always appreciating the ports tree that provides an easy way to build and install a wide range of up-to-date software, and yet flexible to configure them to fit local requirements (by port options).
+
+But www/elinks is not the case, it is definitely not up-to-date for me.

Comment 3 John Hein 2022-04-13 15:02:28 UTC

Should this be closed?  www/elinks is at 0.15.0 (see bug 261189)

Comment 4 WHR 2022-04-13 15:58:01 UTC

(In reply to John Hein from comment #3)

Yep, it recently get updated to a cutting-edge version... while the version 0.12 is still marked as 'unstable' by upstream...