Hello! I'm redirected here from misc list by Kirill Bychkov. There is xlife v5.3 cellular automaton laboratory program at http://openports.se/games/xlife
This program was developed by Eric Raimonds (esr) at 1993-1998. Its development was also affected by the work of Achim Flammenkamp during the same time. Eric Raimonds and Achim Flammenkamp had plan to release v5.4 at 1998. I continue the development of xlife since 2011. I had contacts with Eric Raimonds and Achim Flammenkamp. They gave me aproval to my work---see http://www.catb.org/esr/software.html The current version of xlife is 6.5.3 http://litwr2.atspace.eu/xlife.php ---it's tested with 32/64-bits Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Minix, Cygwin. The version 5.3 contains many bugs. Eric Raimonds doesn't distribute it. He spreads less advanced but stable v5.0 Achim Flammenkamp distributes version 3.5 http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/achim/gol.html There is also version 3.6 http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/achim/xlife-3.6.tar.gz which is not distributed by the author. The version 5.4 was going to merge v3.6 and v5.3 Does OpenBSD community have interest to update xlife? I'm ready to cooperate and take the required part of work. Kirill Bychkov has written "you can update current port and send a diff to ports@". Xlife-6.5.3 and xlife-5.3 dirived from one source (see Xlife development history (1989–2012) at <http://litwr2.atspace.eu/xlife.php>) xlife-5.0 but they have less than 5% matched lines now. Is there a reason to make patches? Regards, Litwr
