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diff --git a/posts/chickadee-0.10.0-released.md b/posts/chickadee-0.10.0-released.md deleted file mode 100644 index 44b9b85..0000000 --- a/posts/chickadee-0.10.0-released.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@ -title: Chickadee 0.10.0 released -date: 2023-05-24 08:00:00 -tags: guile, gamedev, chickadee, release -summary: Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released ---- - -I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! - -Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to -provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers -need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. - -This release is on the smaller side as I just haven’t had much time to -work on Chickadee in the past 6 or so months, but I'm trying to stick -with the routine of publishing a release before each Lisp Game Jam. -The [Spring Lisp Game Jam -2023](https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2023) is starting on -May 26th and if you're interested enough in Chickadee to read this -blog post then you should considering joining in! - -The biggest change in this release is not technical: Chickadee has -been relicensed from GPLv3 to Apache 2.0. This change reflects the -reality that copyleft isn’t a great strategy for something like a game -development library because there are many options to choose from and -all of the best ones use very liberal licenses like the zlib license. -It used to be that there weren’t a lot of game libraries available for -the Lisp family of languages, but that hasn’t been true for awhile. -Most notably, [Trial](https://shirakumo.github.io/trial/) is a Common -Lisp game *engine* that has been used to ship a very real and very -good game called [Kandria](https://shinmera.itch.io/kandria), is far -more featureful than Chickadee, far more battle-tested, and is -available under the zlib license. Apache 2.0 was chosen despite the -bad name that really ought to be changed because it is a similarly -liberal license but also covers software patent nonsense. If the GPL -has been a blocker to using Chickadee for you in the past then I hope -this license change fixes it. - -Notable improvements and changes: - -* Chickadee is now licensed under the Apache 2.0 license rather than - GPLv3+. -* New window event hooks added to `run-game`. -* Garbage generated in performance critical code has been - significantly reduced (but not eliminated.) -* Syntax highlighting in manual code snippets. -* New `#:smooth?` argument for `load-font`. - -Bug fixes: - -* 9-patches now render texture regions properly. -* List of bundled libraries needed by `chickadee bundle` was - inaccurate in 0.9.0 and has been fixed. -* `#:audio` keyword argument to `make-source` is no longer ignored. -* Loading unsupported types of PNG files no longer throws an exception - when printing the error message. - -source tarball: <https://files.dthompson.us/chickadee/chickadee-0.10.0.tar.gz> - -signature: <https://files.dthompson.us/chickadee/chickadee-0.10.0.tar.gz.asc> - -See the [Chickadee project page](/projects/chickadee.html) for more -information. - -Bug reports, bug fixes, feature requests, and patches are welcomed. - -Have fun! |