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.
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).
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). - -But www/elinks is not the case, it is definitely not update-to-date for me. ---------- +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.
Should this be closed? www/elinks is at 0.15.0 (see bug 261189)
(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...