Piga's Pumpkin Carving 2.5.5.
Copyright 2008-2012 Piga Software

* What is Piga's Pumpkin Carving?
Piga's Pumpkin Carving is a virtual toy that allows users to carve jack-o-lanterns on their computer, either with the prescribed pumpkins and carving shapes set into the program or their very own custom ones should they draw them. The user can also capture their jack-o-lanterns through the help of a screen capture tool, as facilitated by a special mode within this program, and each saved pumpkin can then be loaded and extended again within the program. This program is now into its fifth version with a release every year since October 31, 2008, and it is one of Piga Software's oldest full GNU/Linux releases - before Windys or Alexei: Part IX and tied with the first release of PigaVision.

* What systems does it run on?
Piga's Pumpkin Carving is built in the Gambas programming language and thus will run on any system that the Gambas 3 run-time will work on. This includes most POSIX systems, such as most versions of GNU/Linux including Fedora, Mandriva, SUSE, Debian, Mint and Ubuntu as well as FreeBSD. Sadly at this time the Gambas run-time has not been properly ported to Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X (the latter is in the works), and there are no current plans for Piga Software to create a port to either of those platforms through similar BASIC type languages such as Visual Basic .Net or any given Mac OS X equivalent. Being made in Gambas, and free software, it can be edited, modified and extended on any of the compatible systems stated using the Gambas integrated development environment. Also, if anyone should wish to port the Gambas run-time to Windows or Mac OS X we would be in your debt and if you wish to port any of our programs, including this one, through any means to other platforms we would give you our full support.

* How do I install it?
As is stated above, this program can only be ran on certain POSIX compliant systems like GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. There are three different ways to install it onto your system however. Before you try any of this though you should check and see if you have the Gambas run-time properly installed; it is available from most software repositories such as the system ones for Fedora or through extensions such as an Ubuntu PPA, and it can be built for other systems from source code. Afterwards, the first option is to just run the executable "Halloween.gambas" and it should work fine through the run-time. The second option is to download the Gambas project and source code yourself and run it through the development environment.

Finally, if you are running an RPM-enabled GNU/Linux distribution such as Fedora, Mandriva or SUSE you may download a select RPM installer from our icculus.org server. This should allow for you easy installation. One day we also hope to offer up DEB installers for Debian, Ubuntu and Mint systems when we have the resources to maintain an installed system upon which to build them on. In the mean-time, if you want an installed copy on those systems you may download the source code, load it up in the development environment, build a DEB yourself and use it. If you do this, do not hesitate to send a copy of these installers back to us.

* What license is the program under?
As elaborated in "GPL.txt" and the license window within the program, this work is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation. This means that you are free to use, study, modify or redistribute this program however you wish as long as you re-release any, and particularity modified, versions under the same license or, at your option, any later version of the GPL. This applies to the Gambas source code, to the images, to the sounds in this program and even to this documentation. The music files were composed by Kevin MacLeod and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license which allows for it to be shared or remixed as long as you attribute the original author. It is not a share-alike/copyleft license so it may be redistributed under a different license as well if you wish.

* Who created this program?
See the about window within the program.

* What's new in this release?
See "CHANGELOG" included in this archive.

Thank you and happy (or creepy, whatever you are looking for) Halloween,

Graham L. Wilson,
Technical Director,
Piga Software

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