Bug#196498: #196498 Breeder is sterile

Steve Cotton steve0001 at s.cotton.clara.co.uk
Wed Mar 11 13:28:00 UTC 2009


Package: xlife
Version: 5.0-8
Followup-For: Bug #196498

The golly package is another implementation of Life, and has a working
pattern called Breeder.  The data file is in a different format to xlife.

>From xlife's manpage:
   Old files in #P format may not have same y coordinate when read by
   the new release.  For best results, use "lifeconv -p name ..." on old
   files.
Running that on all of xlife's files doesn't fix it, but does produce a
pattern that's about half-way between the broken version and golly's
version.  The result is not in itself interesting.  


Having seen xlife and golly side-by-side, golly 1.4 (which is in unstable)
has a far better UI but not as many rulesets as xlife.  Golly 2.0 has
recently been released (not in Debian yet), and from its changelog looks
like it will completely obsolete xlife.





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