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Valerio Bozzolan 827f63a065 Cleanup unused cowsay files (related to legacy Perl binary version) Summary: Premising that Remarkup supports a fully-featured cowsay generator (!)... since 2015 this awesome thing no longer requires a binary cowsay command, since everything was rewritten in the core: `c705c8011e` So, some files from the legacy cowsay version in Perl can be safely removed. We still thank the original author Tony Monroe for the original version in Perl (dated 2000), and Evan Priestley for the re-implementation in PHP. Probably nobody knows about this feature. This may change in the future. See T15401. Closes T15418 Test Plan: Try some awesome cows to verify that everything still works. For instance: ``` cowsay {{{ hello }}} ``` ``` cowsay (think=yes,eyes=XX,tongue=^^) {{{ hello }}} ``` ``` cowsay (cow=stegosaurus) {{{ hello }}} ``` If nothing explodes, yuppie! Cowsay still works. Credits to the original version in Perl remained in place. Reviewers: O1 Blessed Committers, avivey Reviewed By: O1 Blessed Committers, avivey Subscribers: avivey, speck, tobiaswiese, Matthew, Cigaryno Maniphest Tasks: T15418 Differential Revision: https://we.phorge.it/D25242		2023-05-29 09:13:44 +02:00
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cows	Use PHP implementation of Cowsay for cowsay rule	2015-09-13 12:27:30 -07:00
ChangeLog	Use PHP implementation of Cowsay for cowsay rule	2015-09-13 12:27:30 -07:00
LICENSE	Use PHP implementation of Cowsay for cowsay rule	2015-09-13 12:27:30 -07:00
README	Cleanup unused cowsay files (related to legacy Perl binary version)	2023-05-29 09:13:44 +02:00

README

===========
cowsay 3.03
===========

cowsay is a configurable talking cow, written in Perl.  It operates
much as the figlet program does, and it written in the same spirit
of silliness.

cowsay is actually a pretty old program.  It has not really been
released before, and I am releasing it in the hope that someone
other than myself will be amused by it. 

The first major version of cowsay had one cow and one message
template: $foo is $verb $bar.  Not very flexible, but people managed
to do pretty interesting things with it.  The second major version
scrapped many of the limitations of the first, by allowing arbitrary
messages, multiple cowfiles, and even support for cows talking in
figlet.  The third version was a rewrite of the second into Perl
5, whereupon the code got a lot smaller and more manageable. :-)

If you are using Perl 5.004, you may have problems with Text::Wrap.
(Yeesh, this module changes more than it should...)  I've included
a diff for the Text::Wrap (version 97.011701) that is shipped with
5.004_04; the concept is simple enough that even older Perls can
take advantage of this silly little patch; if there is a "sub fill"
in the documentation for the module, copy it to a more useful
section of that file.  If not, just take "sub fill" wholesale from
the patch.  Oh, and consider upgrading to 5.005_03 or later.
Please.  You'll like it, I promise.

To install cowsay, consult the INSTALL file in this directory.

For the terms and conditions of use, consult the LICENSE file in
this directory.

-- Tony Monroe (tony@nog.net)

$Id: README,v 1.3 2000/05/28 06:24:46 tony Exp $

----

In September 2015, Phabricator imported the Perl version of cowsay
in the core, to use its nice template files. Anyway, the logic now
is not in Perl. It was re-implemented in PHP, here:

src/infrastructure/markup/interpreter/PhabricatorRemarkupCowsayBlockInterpreter.php