Re: [ITP] chafa 1.16.2

On 2025-08-10 15:47, Hans Petter Jansson via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to submit the Chafa project for possible inclusion in the
> Cygwin distribution.
> 
> I maintain the upstream and am prepared to maintain the Cygwin package.
> Here's the blurb:
> 
> SUMMARY="Terminal graphics renderer"
> DESCRIPTION="Chafa is a versatile and efficient terminal
> graphics package that renders images and animations to a
> wide range of formats, including sixels, iTerm, kitty and
> ANSI/ASCII/Unicode art. It supports most terminals and
> multiplexers, both modern and classic, and adapts to
> the user's environment."
> 
> The project consists of a library and a CLI tool. They are covered by
> LGPL-3.0-or-later. The CLI tool also contains some code covered by the
> Zlib and MIT licenses that I believe to be in compliance.
> 
> I started the project in 2018, and it's currently shipping in Debian
> (including downstreams like Ubuntu and Raspbian), GNU Guix, Fedora,
> openSUSE, Arch, Alpine, Homebrew, Gentoo, nixpkgs, FreeBSD and OpenBSD
> ports, and a few others.

Seems to be widely available:

	https://repology.org/project/chafa/versions

> It has native MS Windows builds available in MSYS2, Scoop and Winget,
> but these don't work with Cygwin terminal emulators, so users request
> Cygwin builds from time to time.
> 
> You can read more at https://hpjansson.org/chafa/ .
> 
> I've made a cygport file and built test packages. It's available at
> this temporary URL: https://hpjansson.org/chafa/cygpkg/

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