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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: [NEW] textproc/py-retext, textproc/py-markups, textproc/py-mdx_math
To:
Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Cc:
Pedro Almeida <palmeida@monkeys.pt>, ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:34:49 +0000

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On 2025/11/17 16:05, Landry Breuil wrote:
> Le Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 12:44:27AM +0000, Pedro Almeida a écrit :
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Please find attached a functional port for ReText, and two direct
> > dependencies.
> > 
> > ReText is a simple but powerful editor for markup languages. It is based on
> > Markups module which supports Markdown, reStructuredText, Textile and
> > AsciiDoc. One can also add support for custom markups using Python modules.
> > 
> > Markups has 4 wrappers for markup languages available "by default":
> > Markdown, reStructuredText, Textile and AsciiDoc, which introduces a second
> > level dependencies.
> > Three of them were trivial to include since they already been ported.
> > For the forth, Textile, the dependcy tree is kind of "heavy" and have being
> > a challenge to me for some time now.
> 
> from what i can see at https://pypi.org/project/textile/ it needs 'nh3'
> and 'regex'. only nh3 is missing in the portstree.

nh3 has been there for ~18 months but not linked to the build until
recently.

> > Since the port of ReText is functional for the other three, is there any
> > possibility to list this dependency as optional?
> 
> either as a comment in the Makefile, or eventually in the DESCR.
> 
> or you could also add @comment in from the the textile-related lines in
> the PLIST for markups, this way support for it isnt advertized.
> 
> for markups, maybe the default HOMEPAGE ( https://pypi.org/project/Markups/) or
> https://pymarkups.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ would be better than github ?)
> 
> the tests run fine for markups.
> 
> mdx-math still had a trailing dot for COMMENT, and an unneeded empty
> REVISION.
> 
> retext needs RUN_DEPENDS on x11/gtk+4,guic for the gtk-update-icon-cache
> @tag line, and i dont think you need wheel and packaging in RUN_DEPENDS
> (wheel will automatically be in BUILD_DEPENDS via
> MODPY_PYBUILD=setuptools)

check that though; sometimes things do need these.

> maybe it could use a RUN_DEPENDS on pyqt6-webengine, enchant and
> chardet, depending on which features they add ? webengine seems to be
> used for some preview..
> 
> [project.optional-dependencies]
> spellcheck = ["pyenchant"]
> encoding-detection = ["chardet"]
> webengine = ["PyQt6-WebEngine"]
> 
> other than that, i've briefly tested retext and it looks nice
> feature-wise, great addition.
> 
> Landry
>