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Port details
chawan Chawan is a text-mode web browser and pager
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Maintainer: hoanga@gmail.com search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-08-04 13:48:05
Last Update: 2025-11-26 17:54:58
Commit Hash: bdbb388
License: UNLICENSE
WWW:
https://chawan.net
Description:
Chawan is a text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible. It includes functionality like CSS, inline images inside the terminal, and JavaScript through a small, independent browser engine. Most of Chawan has been developed from scratch in the memory-safe Nim programming language.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/chawan-0.3.0/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/chawan-0.3.0/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/chawan-0.3.0/UNLICENSE
  4. bin/cha
  5. bin/mancha
  6. libexec/chawan/ansi2html
  7. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/canvas
  8. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/chabookmark
  9. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/file
  10. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/finger
  11. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/ftp
  12. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/gemini
  13. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/gopher
  14. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/http
  15. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/jebp
  16. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/man
  17. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/nanosvg
  18. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/resize
  19. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/sftp
  20. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/sixel
  21. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/spartan
  22. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/ssl
  23. libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/stbi
  24. libexec/chawan/dirlist2html
  25. libexec/chawan/gmi2html
  26. libexec/chawan/gopher2html
  27. libexec/chawan/img2html
  28. libexec/chawan/md2html
  29. libexec/chawan/nc
  30. libexec/chawan/tohtml
  31. libexec/chawan/uri2html
  32. libexec/chawan/urldec
  33. libexec/chawan/urlenc
  34. share/man/man1/cha.1.gz
  35. share/man/man1/mancha.1.gz
  36. share/man/man5/cha-config.5.gz
  37. share/man/man5/cha-mailcap.5.gz
  38. share/man/man5/cha-mime.types.5.gz
  39. share/man/man5/cha-localcgi.5.gz
  40. share/man/man5/cha-urimethodmap.5.gz
  41. share/man/man7/cha-protocols.7.gz
  42. share/man/man7/cha-api.7.gz
  43. share/man/man7/cha-troubleshooting.7.gz
  44. share/man/man7/cha-image.7.gz
  45. share/man/man7/cha-css.7.gz
  46. share/man/man7/cha-terminal.7.gz
  47. @owner
  48. @group
  49. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • chawan>0:www/chawan
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/www/chawan/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install www/chawan
  • pkg install chawan
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: chawan
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1764177873 SHA256 (v0.3.0.tar.gz) = d97319848ceb98407dc4ba2303bec48787ab1e444cd166eeb0b928360ebda08d SIZE (v0.3.0.tar.gz) = 3641219

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
chawan
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest0.2.20.2.2-0.2.20.2.2n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly0.2.20.2.2--0.2.2n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest0.2.20.2.2-0.2.20.2.2---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly0.2.20.2.2--0.2.2---
FreeBSD:15:latest0.2.20.2.2n/a0.2.2n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly0.2.20.2.2n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest0.2.20.3.0n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. nim : lang/nim
  2. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
  3. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Library dependencies:
  1. libbrotlidec.so : archivers/brotli
  2. libbrotlicommon.so : archivers/brotli
  3. libssh2.so : security/libssh2
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
www_chawan
USES:
gmake libtool pkgconfig ssl
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/archive/
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
0.3.0
26 Nov 2025 17:54:58
commit hash: bdbb388a71989cb41542447f4dc105844907614ccommit hash: bdbb388a71989cb41542447f4dc105844907614ccommit hash: bdbb388a71989cb41542447f4dc105844907614ccommit hash: bdbb388a71989cb41542447f4dc105844907614c files touched by this commit
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Al Hoang
www/chawan: update 0.2.2 -> 0.3.0

Release notes:
https://chawan.net/news/chawan-0-3-0.html

While here fix warning from portclippy.

PR:	291235
0.2.2
04 Aug 2025 13:46:36
commit hash: 4a0169a0f3f997a86024ed48b9c4e2e88c3de886commit hash: 4a0169a0f3f997a86024ed48b9c4e2e88c3de886commit hash: 4a0169a0f3f997a86024ed48b9c4e2e88c3de886commit hash: 4a0169a0f3f997a86024ed48b9c4e2e88c3de886 files touched by this commit
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Al Hoang
www/chawan: new port: A text-mode web browser and pager

Chawan is a text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus
on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to
understand and extensible.

It includes functionality like CSS, inline images inside the terminal, and
JavaScript through a small, independent browser engine.

Most of Chawan has been developed from scratch in the memory-safe Nim
programming language.

WWW: https://chawan.net

PR:		288598
Reported by:	Al Hoang <hoanga@gmail.com> (new maintainer)

Number of commits found: 2