Chapter 2. News and Change Log

libpsp 0.3.2

Aug 18, 1999 - Aug 24, 1999

• Rewrite of the manual page source to docbook. Uses docbook-to-man and tbl for translation to *roff code.

• Fixed configure.in and added some warning messages for systems where the library is unlikely to work.

Aug 18, 1999

• Improvements in configure script and Makefiles

• Started to rewrite the manual page source files to use docbook instead of linuxdoc.

Aug 16, 1999

• Updated library documentation to docbook.

Aug 15, 1999

• Remove package version number from libtool library handling.

libpsp 0.3.1

Aug 15, 1999

• Fixing some problems with automake and autoconf.

• Reduced the amount of testdata.

libpsp pre 0.3

Mar 26, 1999 - Apr 10, 1999

• Split of gimp-psp resulting in libpsp and gimp-psp-plugin.

• Use autoconf, automake and libtool to facilitate the building process.

• Byteorder test programs written for use in configure. Should make the package far more portable and easier to handle too.

gimp-psp-0.2beta1

Mar 16, 1999

• Enumerations of return values listed in the PSPGetField(3) manual page.

gimp-psp-pre0.2beta2

Mar 15, 1999

• Description for field key values listed for PSPGetField(3) in the manual page.

• Description for new datatypes to the manual page libpsp(3) added.

Mar 14, 1999

• PSPReadline(3) static variables converted to members of the PSP struct.

• Key names for selection and alpha channel fields added to the PSPGetField(3) manual page.

• Added sanity check of mode parameter to PSPOpen(3).

• PSPGetField(3) now returns default resolution info of 72.0 dpi and sets PSPErrno to PSPENIMPL if resolution information is not available.

• New datatypes pspenum_t and pspbool_t used in PSPGetField(3).

Mar 13, 1999

• BSD make now supported.

gimp-psp-pre0.2beta1

Mar 10, 1999

• Test on RS/6000 with AIX 4.1 successful.

• Alpha channel support finished.

Mar 9, 1999

• Work on Alpha channels started.

• cleaned up some Makefile targets and dependencies.

• Improved byte-order routines.

Mar 8, 1999

• Fixed two bugs in the library concerning dynamic memory allocation for strings.

Mar 5, 1999

• Dependency problem in src/Makefile cleaned up.

gimp-psp-0.1alpha6

Mar 4, 1999

• PSPGetColor(3) added to support 8 bit indexed images.

• Colormap support to PSPGetField(3) added.

• Updated PSPGetField(3) manpage and created one for PSPGetColor(3).

• Updated PSP application information according to information by JASC but disabled for now as it is not in accordance to the test data.

• Target system dependencies moved from top-level Makefile to src/Makefile.

gimp-psp-0.1alpha5

Mar 3, 1999

• Problem with big endian systems leading to compile error fixed.

• Changed PSPReadScanline(3) to return an error when LZ77 compressed data is accessed.

gimp-psp-0.1alpha3

Mar 3, 1999

• Support for layer user mask.

gimp-psp-0.1alpha1

Mar 1, 1999

• Checked the manual pages for consistency to release first alpha.

gimp-psp-0.0alpha5

Feb 24, 1999

• Implementation of channel and layer handling.

gimp-psp-0.0alpha4

Feb 22, 1999

• Import into cvs.