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
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
Changes between 0.8 and 0.9:
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* fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering
* fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers
* aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview
* minor compilation fixes
Changes between 0.7 and 0.8:
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* window resizing support
* native Win32 port
* autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers
* support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers
* cacaplas, a plasma animation example
* cacamoir, a moiré circles animation example
* MSVC project file
Changes between 0.6 and 0.7:
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* many bugfixes in the event handling
* cacaball, a metaball animation example
Changes between 0.5 and 0.6:
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* 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine
* mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver
* X11 is now the preferred driver
* improved documentation
* minor bugfixes
Package change: use (n)curses by default instead of slang.
Changes between 0.4 and 0.5:
* palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair
shortage bug
* minor compilation fix
Changes between 0.3 and 0.4:
* preliminary X11 graphics driver
* support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers
* honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables
* more documentation
The libcaca library is a graphics library that outputs text instead
of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals.
It is not unlike the famous AAlib library. libcaca needs a terminal
to work, thus it should work on all Unix systems (including Mac OS
X) using either the slang library or the ncurses library.
The differences with AAlib are the following:
* 16 available colours for character output (256 colour pairs)
* dithering of colour images
* basic sprite primitives
But libcaca also has the following limitations:
* no support for brightness, contrast, gamma
* unefficient character-choosing algorithms
* no alternate fonts
* no raw keyboard support
* no custom output drivers a la AA-on-X
