1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332
333
334
335
336
337
338
339
340
341
342
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
371
372
373
374
375
376
377
378
379
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
395
396
397
398
399
400
401
402
403
404
405
406
407
408
409
410
411
412
|
Version 2.9
New ponies: pinkieumbrelahatfear, twilighttime
New extraponies: molestia (Tumblr)
The option -q works like -f and -F, it takes one argument, and may be used multiple
times for more arguments.
The old option -q is renamed to --q.
The options --f and --F has been added.
Weighted distance for autocorrection on pony names and boolean style name is set to 5, rather
than unlimited. Currently this cannot be modified (without editing the source code.)
If file descriptor 3 is definied when ponysay is executed, extra information is printed to it.
Arguments starting with n or i is allowed for -W.
Version 2.8
New ponies: airheart, bastionyorsets, gustavelegrand, milkyway, peppermoon, pinkacopter, pinkiefly,
pinkieparade, pinkieumbrellahat, raritycomplaining, shiningarmorwedding, soarinofficer,
starlight, sunnyrays, sweatiesing, tenderheart, tom, twilightspike, zecorabalance
New extraponies: applejack (Tumblr), applejack-63, artemis, blueberry, butterscotch,
drhoovesdiscorded (Tumblr), duskshine, elusive, rainbowblitz
Pony symlink added: georgewachingtony → bastionyorsets
Support for explicit hypthenation using soft hyphens had been added to the word wrapper.
Support for explicit non-word wrapping using non-breaking space had been added to the word wrapper.
The word wrapper colours the inserted hyphens in red.
Support for terminal capabilities emulation with the flags -X, -V and -K.
Support for printing just the pony, using the flag -o.
Colouring option flags are added.
Automatic correction of incorrectly spelled pony names and balloon style names added.
Version 2.7
New ponies: basil, cloudkicker, cerberus, cow, derpysad, flowertrio, frederickhorseshoepin,
horsemd, jeffletroski, jesuspezuna, joe, joetuxedo, manticore, meadowsong,
meliot, pinkiegummydisguise, seaswirl, theodoredonaldkerabatsos, turf,
waltercoltchak
New extraponies: blueballblitz (Various fanfics, Shadowbolt), drhooves1, drhooves2, drhooves3,
drhooves4, drhooves5, drhooves6, drhooves7, drhooves8, drhooves9, drhooves10,
drhooves11, nyx (Fanfic: Past Sins), nyxdisguised (Fanfic: Past Sins),
pinkaminacupcake (Fanfic)
Pony renamed: cracky to crackle
Version 2.6
New ponies: applebloomdance, blueberry, blueberrycake, blueharvest, candylicious,
cherrycola, cracky, cutiemarkcrusaders, derpybags, derpycloud, firestreak,
hughjelly, lemonhearts, lyrabonbon, noi, pictureperfect, pigpen,
poppycock, quickfix, rainbowhurricane, rainboshadowbolt, silverspeed,
surprise (wonderbolt), thunderlane, timeturner, twilightthebearded
New extraponies: faust (alicorn), maria (Moonstuck, seapony), posey (Tumblr),
slanderpony (Various tumblr), sparkler (Tumblr), twilight (Tumblr)
Pony symlink added: bonbonlyra → lyrabonbon
clockwork → quickfix
drhooves → timeturner
epona → quickfix
lotusbloosom → lotus
doctor and doctornohat has become extraponies, because their mane style is
different from in the TV show. And timeturner no longer links to any of them.
./configure and make is no longer support.
Version 2.5.1
New extra ponies: sealyra
Build system as compatibility with standard GNU Make build system.
Version 2.5
Brand new highly configurable build system.
UTF-8 as I/O encoding is enforced. (Critical bug fix for ASCII locale users.)
Version 2.4
Nothing worth mentioning.
Note: Identifies itself as version 2.3
Version 2.3
Support for 'best.pony' file.
`-q` accepts file names.
Improved Unicode support: treats combining characters as invisible.
Optional support for UCS pony names.
Pony files and balloon style files can be pipes (as
well as sockets, doors and as always regular files.)
Support cowsay style message compression.
New ponies: blaze
New extraponies: fyrefly (Tumblr), surprise (Tumblr), woona (Moonstuck),
woonanohat (Moonstuck)
Pony symlink added: pinkieoink → oinkoinkoink
Support for non-MLP:FiM ponies (known as extraponies).
Version 2.2
Full support for arbitrary positioning of balloon in pony files.
ANSI colour sequences in pony files are applied only to the pony image,
not the balloon link or the balloon itself.
Support for colours in the message.
Support custom balloon styles using the option '-b', '-B' will list all
available. This list depends on whether you are invoking `ponysay` or `ponythink`.
Version 2.1.1
Nothing worth mentioning.
Version 2.1
Pony renamed: applebumkin to applebumpkin
New ponies: purplehaze, owlowiscious
Cowsay has be reimplemented, and have full Unicode support
and support for @code{figlet} style messages.
Deleted environment variables: PONYSAY_COWSAY, PONYSAY_COWTHINK
You will need Python 3, but not GNU Bash, Perl or Cowsay.
New .pony file format is used.
Version 2.0
Makefile is generated by running `./configure`.
All Perl scripts and almost all Bash are reimplemented in one Python 3 script.
kmsponies4ponysay is included.
Version 1.4.1
Code is repaired and more portable.
Version 1.4
Make file is improved.
Note: Identifies itself as version 1.3
Version 1.3
New ponies: forestspirit, hollydash, raggedy, rhyme
Pony renamed: sindy to powderrouge
Pony symlink added: sindy → powderrouge
PREFIX=/some-dir can be used when invoking make, the default value is /usr
Version 1.2
ponyquotes4ponysay is included.
Support for extension: kmsponies4ponysay.
New ponies: ace, filthyrich, blueblood, gingergold, hayfever,
highscore, junebug, mrsparkle, persnickety, ponet,
screwloose, tornadobolt.
Pony renamed: elsie to prettyvision
Pony symlinks added: mrsparkle → nightlight
elsie → prettyvision
Arbitrary spaces in '-f' argument is not longer accepted (it causes
problems with file names including spaces).
Note: Identifies itself as version 1.1
Version 1.1
Manpages are compressed before installation.
'info manual' added.
Shell completion for 'ponythink' added, in addition to 'ponysay'.
'fish' completion added.
'/usr/lib/ponysay' is used instead of '/usr/bin'
for code used by the main script.
'~/.local/share/ponysay is used for private pony directories.
'ncurses' is no longer needed for determining the screen's size,
'coreutils' is used instead.
Pony symlinks added: amethyststar → sparkler
berrypinch → ruby
craftycrate → boxxy
magnum → raritysdad
pearl → raritysmom
powderrouge → sindy
royalribbo → violet
New ponies: blossomforth, bonvoyage, cadance, celestiasmall,
changelingqueen, cherryberry, discordamused,
discordpuppetmaster, fleurdelishair, fleurdelislay,
owl, perrypierce, petunia, pinacolada, skyra,
truffleshuffle.
Pony spelling removed: fillycadence.
Pony symlink change: perry → (pokey → perrypierce).
Option '-L' added, lists ponies with symlink mapping.
Support for extension: ponyquotes4ponysay.
Accepts arbitrary spaces in '-f' argument.
Version 1.0
Spanish translation of the manpage is added.
New ponies: applecore, applejackscarecrow, bonbonstand, changeling,
chrysalis, cottoncloudy, diamondmint, discord,
fillycadence, flam, fleurdelis, flim, fluttershyshy,
fluttershystare, lyrasit, oinkoinkoink (is pinkie),
philomenaphoenix, pinkiecannon, pinkiecannonfront,
pinkiecannonhappy, pinkiegummy, pinkiehugfluttershy,
pinkiehugsfluttershy, pinkiepartycannon, pinkieprincess,
pinkiesilly, pinkietongue, pinkiewhoops, pinkiewhoopseat,
pinkiewhoopsout, rainbowdrag, rainbowsalute, rainbowshine,
raritydrama, shiningarmor, shiningarmorguard, snowflak,
spikemustache, stevenmagnet, stevenmagnettrue,
twilightcrazyfromball, twilightrage, twilightzero,
wildfire.
Pony symlinks added: djpon-3 → vinyl
fillycadance → fillycadence
horsepower → snowflake
Improved TTY support: ponies have low colours resolution, instead
of monochrome, when the high colour resolution is not available.
Version 0.10
Manpage manual added.
The directories for pony directories are changed
from '/usr/share' to '/usr/share/ponysay' and '~' to '~/.ponysay'.
Pony symlinks added: carrottop → carrot
goldenharvest → carrot
harpass → lyra
heartstrings → lyra
lulamoon → trixie
minuette → colgate
noteworthy → blues
perry → pokey
pokeypierce → pokey
timeturner → doctornohat
trixielulamoon → trixie
twilightvelvet → mrssparkle
Support for truncating output on height, enabled by default under TTY.
Environment variables added: 'PONYSAY_FULL_WIDTH',
'PONYSAY_SHELL_LINES', 'PONYSAY_TRUNCATE_HEIGHT', 'PONYSAY_BOTTOM'.
Version 0.9
Output truncated on width to fit screen.
Support for TTY (Linux VT).
'bash' completion added.
'zsh' completion added.
New ponies: allie, archer, boxxy, carecake, cupcake, daringdo,
davenport, fancypants, ironwillwalk, lily, lunafly,
maredowellfly, maredowellgallop, master, mjolna,
orange, raritysdad, raritysmom, royalnightguard,
ruby, sparkler, violet.
Version 0.8
New ponies: aloe, angle, applebloom, applebumkin, applefritter,
berrypunch, bigmac, blinkie, blues, braeburn, caesar,
candymane, caramel, cheerilee, cheerilee80, clyde,
colgate, colton, daisy, derpystand, derpystandwing,
diamondtiara, dinky, doctornohat, elsie, fido,
fillycelestia, fillydash, fillydashfly, fillyjack,
fillyjacktravel, fillypinkie, fillypinkiecurly,
fillyrarity, fillyshy, fluttershygala, gilda, gildastand,
granny, grannychair, grannysleep, gummy, hoity, horte,
inky, laflour, lightning, lintsalot, lotus, mayor,
mrssparkle, nightmare, opal, parasprite, philomena,
photofinish, pinkamina, pinkiebounce, pinkiechicken,
pinkiegala, pipsqueak, pokey, rainbowfly, rainbowgala,
rainbowsleep, raindrops, rarityfly, raritygala,
rarityponder, redheart, rocky, rose, rover, royalguard,
sapphire, scootaloo, screwball, shadowbolts, silverspoon,
silverstar, sindy, snails, snips, soarin, soigne, spike,
spikefloat, spikelove, spot, stella, strongheart, sue,
suedance, tank, trixiestage, trixiestand, turnip, twist,
winona.
Note: Identifies itself as version 0.7
Version 0.7
New ponies: carrot, octavia, trixie, vinyl, zecora.
Support for listing ponies with '-l' option.
Version 0.6
New ponies: bonbon, celestia, doctor, fillistia,
spitfire, woona (not moonstuck).
Dropping usage of utility 'which', using 'hash' instead.
Note: Identifies itself as version 0.5
Version 0.5
Using utility 'which' to determine existance of 'cowsay'.
Version 0.4
'.cow' files are removed.
Support for '-W' option.
Select random pony if not specified.
Added command '-f' for supports file names, and not only pony names.
Version 0.3
Fixed use of '.pony' files.
Version 0.2
Pony files end with '.pony' instead of '.cow'.
lyrasleep is renamed to lyra.
'.cow' files are kept but not used.
Added option '-h' prints proper help.
Version 0.1
First release.
Includes the ponies: applejack, derpy, derpysit, fluttershy,
luna, lyrasleep, pinkie, rainbow, rarity,
sweetie, twilight.
|