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Bug#452026: marked as done (ITP: golly -- Game of Life simulator using hashlife algorithm)

Your message dated Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:46:40 +0000
with message-id <E1JScuu-00086q-Bb@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#452026: fixed in golly 1.3-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #452026,
regarding ITP: golly -- Game of Life simulator using hashlife algorithm
to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : golly
  Version         : 1.3
  Upstream Author : Tomas Rokicki <rokicki@gmail.com>
                    Andrew Trevorrow <andrew@trevorrow.com>
* URL             : http://golly.sourceforge.net/
* License         : GPL version 2 or later
  Programming Lang: C++, with Python scripting support
  Description     : Game of Life simulator using hashlife algorithm

 Golly simulates Conway's Game of Life with an arbitrarily large grid
 of cells.  It can optionally use a hashlife algorithm, which allows
 it to rapidly compute generations for huge patterns, and to compute
 many generations into the future at a time.
 .
 Golly provides a graphical interface for viewing and editing cellular
 automata.  It supports copy and paste, zoom, auto-fit, multiple
 layers, and viewing different areas of a pattern simultaneously in
 different areas of a window.
 .
 Golly can load patterns from RLE, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and
 macrocell file formats; it can also interpret images as Life
 patterns.  Golly provides integrated help, including a copy of the
 Life Lexicon.
 .
 Golly also supports other rules for 2D cellular automata with an
 8-cell neighborhood, and supports 1D cellular automata.

(end of description)

Some notes:

* Golly has some serious portability issues: in particular, it
  generates many compiler errors if sizeof(node *) != sizeof(int).
  Much of this seems to occur in the hash table code when hashing
  pointer values, so in theory it might not cause a problem if made to
  go away via appropriate casting.

* Golly uses wxWidgets, and supports building for either X11 or GTK+;
  however, the authors specifically recommend against the X11 version,
  so I'd suggest only packaging the GTK+ version.

* Golly runs extremely fast, and the hashlife algorithm makes many
  complex patterns easy to simulate.  On my system, I could easily
  simulate a 3x3 grid of Unit Life cells running a blinker, with one
  Unit Life generation per step, in real-time.  I could also take any
  of the patterns from Golly's database and run it to 1e10 generations
  with no problems, even those with asymptotically quadratic growth.

* The interface beats xlife hands down.

- Josh Triplett

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Source: golly
Source-Version: 1.3-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
golly, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

golly_1.3-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/golly/golly_1.3-1.diff.gz
golly_1.3-1.dsc
  to pool/main/g/golly/golly_1.3-1.dsc
golly_1.3-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/golly/golly_1.3-1_i386.deb
golly_1.3.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/g/golly/golly_1.3.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 452026@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org> (supplier of updated golly package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:03:17 +0900
Source: golly
Binary: golly
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.3-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>
Changed-By: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>
Description: 
 golly      - Game of Life simulator using hashlife algorithm
Closes: 452026
Changes: 
 golly (1.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Initial release (Closes: #452026).
Files: 
 ca3e0483a08334ad69ab7eaae3a62304 638 games optional golly_1.3-1.dsc
 8d00e0f14ec2758a5e2524a500b91ceb 1384422 games optional golly_1.3.orig.tar.gz
 7eab6f42ead4c4d6da38aefc0c5d45a6 10621 games optional golly_1.3-1.diff.gz
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