Re: [Patch/gtk3] assorted fixes

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Hi Peter:

Am 04.06.16 20:28 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> To test the html2text part, I installed it with "dnf install html2text", which actually installed the 
> python-html2text package, and a script of the same name, but no script named html2text (nor a sym-link). Is that the 
> same tool you used under a different name, or is your tool something different?

I think these are different ones.

Html2text is a tool written in c++ [1], and available under this package name on Ubuntu/Debian.  However, the 
Python scripts are also supported [2, 3].

> I changed AC_PATH_PROG to AC_PATH_PROGS and added python-html2text to the list, and it seems to work. Does 
> that seem right to you?

Yes!  Actually, the Python scripts seem to be the better choice as they preserve the paragraphs by inserting 
a blank line.  They are named differently on Ubuntu and Debian, though, so I think the best approach would be 
using

        AC_PATH_PROGS(HTML2TEXT, [python-html2text html2markdown html2markdown.py2 html2markdown.py3 
html2text], no)

in configure.ac.  Not sure about the naming on other platforms (e.g. SuSE), though...

For our simple requirements, html2markdown* and html2text all seem to work just fine (at least on Ubuntu) 
without additional command line options.  Apart from that, sending html-only messages is a bad idea anyway, 
so I wouldn't invest too much effort to beautify the output...

Cheers
Albrecht.


[1] <http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/index.shtml>
[2] <http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=xenial&searchon=names&keywords=html2text>
[3] <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=html2text&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all>

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