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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/graphics/libcaca
From: Amitai Schlair
Date: 2014-02-23 01:35:32
Message id: 20140223003532.E595496@cvs.netbsd.org
Log Message:
Update to the non-deprecated 0.99.beta18, with help from jgoamakf's
pkgsrc-wip entry. From the changelog:
- new "cacaclock" utility
- improved FIGlet support
- improved Python and Ruby bindings
- numerous improvements and bugfixes
- new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering
- new <conio.h> compatible header for old DOS software porting
- XCode and Visual Studio build improvements
- Unicode support in the X11 driver
- triangle texture mapping
- improved HTML output
- new troff output
- improved Ruby and .NET bindings
- new comprehensive PHP bindings
- new Java bindings
- Cocoa driver enhancements
- support for ANSI colour in FIGlet and TOIlet fonts
- documentation updates
- numerous improvements and bugfixes
- many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms
- libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity
- internal FIGlet font support
- use C99 types in public headers
- runtime support for output drivers
- BBcode export support
- device-dependent cursor support
- event API rewrite
- minor API improvements and extensions
- img2txt improvements
- Ruby bindings
- Massive C# bindings improvements
- Python sample code
- Visual Studio build solution
- support for 90-degree canvas rotation
- better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal
- the built-in font now supports the Geometric Shapes, Halfwidth and Fullwidth
Forms and Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode blocks
- new rotozoom effect in cacademo
- Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X
- preliminary .NET bindings
- many bugfixes and documentation changes
- fixed compilation of the C++ bindings
- fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size()
- implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and S-Lang
- minor bugfixes
- new debug mode
- blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates
- import functions can read streamed data
- attribute to colorspace transformations
- added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font
- many bugfixes and documentation changes
- support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes
- allow to import and export zero-sized canvases
- fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview
- fixed buffer overlows in the file importer
- big documentation updates
- allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins
- support for fullwidth Unicode characters
- improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate()
- minor bugfixes and documentation updates
- transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter
- optimised triangle fill routine
- updated C++ bindings
- ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8
- Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set
- various memory leaks were fixed
- implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color()
- handle transparency in the IRC export
- new cropping and expanding filters
- full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver
- portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS
- all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo
- added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications
- fixed manpage generation
- minor bugfixes and documentation updates
- libcaca functions use errno for error reporting
- updated C++ bindings
- minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates
- ANSI importer
- functions use errno for error reporting
- updated C++ bindings
- .NET bindings
- cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor
- Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses
- built-in fonts work on Win32
- license switched to WTFPL
- libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend,
and libcaca, the display and user input frontend
- Unicode support
- TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support
- Floyd-Steinberg dithering
- gamma correction
- export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA...
- builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output
- various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...)
- OpenGL renderer
- kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel
- cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications
- img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility
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