Release history for fudgets

0.19.0 -- 2026-1?-??

• You can now cabal configure with the flag -fx11protocol to use a new X Windows System Protocol implementation instead of the old home-grown binding to the Xlib C library, eliminating most uses of the Foreign Function Interface and the potential memory safety issues that come with it.

  The X Window System Protocol implementation is still work in progress and not enabled by default, but all the demos and examples listed in fudgets.cabal work, and so do some larger programs, like WWWBrowser and Alfa.

  Known issues: dependencies on network<3 and select can cause problems:

  • network-2.8.0.1 can be installed with recent versions of ghc by using --allow-newer.
  • select contains a superfluous extra-libraries: rt. It appears to be harmless on Linux, but needs to be removed on macOS.

• The fudget bufferButtonF was added to ContribFudgets.

• Changes to data types (requiring a major version number bumb, even though the changes are fairly small):

  • Added support for the GC attribute GCArcMode, with choices ArcChord and (the default) ArcPieSlice.

  • The data type Points was added and used in the constructors DrawLines and FillPolygon in the DrawCommand data type. Backwards compatible functions drawLines and fillPolygon were also added.

  • The data type BitmapData was added and used in the BitmapReturn data type.

• Some functions, on bitmaps, e.g. doubleBM, that were previously part of the SpaceInvaders demo are now included in the library.

• Various minor documentation improvements, bug fixes, internal implementation changes and source code cleanup. Fixed some old-style C function declarations.

• Tested with 20 different versions of GHC, from 7.4.1 to 9.14.1.

0.18.4.1 -- 2026-10-05

• Fixed some old-style C function declarations that caused problems with gcc>=15, otherwise the same as 0.18.4.

0.18.4 -- 2023-06-27

• Cla (Lennart Augustsson's calculator) is now included.

• Added support for binary I/O with lazy bytestrings to files and network sockets.

• Removed the last remnants of the PackedString type.

• Tested with 14 different versions of GHC, from 7.4.1 to 9.6.2.

• Fudgets turned 30 this month, can you believe it? The first paper on Fudgets was presented at the Conference on Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture, Copenhagen, June 1993.

0.18.3.2 -- 2022-08-04

• Simplified the installation on macOS by adding a helper script hsrc/fudcpp to workaround problems with the -optP option in ghc>=8.10.3 and automatically detect which version of gcc is installed.

0.18.3.1 -- 2022-03-14

• Renamed doRequest.hs to doRequestCmd.hs to avoid a name clash with DoRequest.hs on systems with case-insensitive file names.

0.18.3 -- 2022-03-13

• Although Fudgets dates back to the early 1990s, this is the first release on Hackage.