Release PDCurses 3.8 - 2019-02-02 · wmcbrine/PDCurses

It's that time again.

New features

PDC_VERSION structure and PDC_get_version() function, to provide run-
time information on version and compile options, in case they don't
match the header; along with new compile-time defines PDC_VER_MAJOR,
PDC_VER_MINOR and PDC_VERDOT. Suggested by Simon Sobisch, designed
partly after Bill Gray and partly after SDL_VERSION.
Extensive documentation revisions, now covering many previously
undocumented functions.
Allow building the DLL with MinGW for SDL. (This also changes the
non-DLL library name from libpdcurses.a to pdcurses.a.)
Consolidated Watcom makefiles for DOS, after Tee-Kiah Chia; added
MODEL option to Makefile.bcc for consistency.
Added another ncurses_test, "lrtest"; updated for ncurses 6.1.

T.H.'s update rect clipper (a resize fix for SDL2) broke sdltest,
because it didn't take the offsets into account for a non-owned
window.
The version number is now hardwired only in curses.h and configure.ac.
Revised pdcurses.rc to correctly show all fields when checking the
properties on a DLL; use it with MinGW as well as MSVC.
Allow building both 32- and 64-bit SDL2 versions in MinGW without
editing the Makefile, by using the proper dev package.
Build SDL2 demos in "Windows" mode (i.e. no controlling terminal) with
MSVC, as with MinGW.
Build sdltest.exe with MSVC.
Changed sample pathname in tuidemo to always use slashes -- the
backslashes failed in, e.g., SDL under Linux or macOS. Patch by B.G.
Warning fix for Borland OS/2.
Minor file reorganization / renaming.
mmask_t is now used in both the classic and ncurses mouse interfaces,
and is defined in such a way as to keep it at 32 bits.
Dropped map_button() and getbmap().
Dropped the ability to build BBS-ready archives from the Makefiles.
Made manext.py compatible with Python 3.x.

See the git log for more details.