Package golly: Information

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Source package: golly
Version: 4.1-alt2
Latest version according to Repology
Build time:  Sep 24, 2022, 05:55 PM in the task #307181
Category: Education
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License: GPL
Summary: Exploring Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata
Description: 
Welcome to Golly, a sophisticated tool for exploring Conway's
Game of Life and other cellular automata.

- Unbounded universe (limited only by memory).
- Fast, memory-efficient conventional algorithm.
- Use hashing to see large patterns evolve at huge time scales.
- Responsive even while generating or garbage collecting.
- Reads RLE, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and macrocell formats.
- Can also read common graphic formats: BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF.
- Includes a state-of-the-art pattern collection.
- Supports other Life-like rules and Wolfram's 1D rules.
- Fast loading of large patterns.
- Paste in patterns from the clipboard.
- Unlimited undo/redo.
- Unbounded zooming out for astronomical patterns.
- Auto fit option keeps a generating pattern within view.
- Full screen option (no menu/status/tool/scroll bars).
- Supports multiple layers, including cloned layers.
- HTML-based help with integrated Life Lexicon.
- Scriptable via Perl or Python.
- User-configurable keyboard shortcuts.
- Free, open source and cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux).
- We also provide bgolly, a GUI-less version.

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
golly (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
golly-data (noarch)
golly-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)

Maintainer: Anton Midyukov



    1. libwxGTK3.2-devel
    2. python3-dev
    3. libGLU-devel
    4. libSDL2-devel
    5. gcc-c++
    6. ImageMagick-tools
    7. zlib-devel

Last changed


Sept. 21, 2022 Anton Midyukov 4.1-alt2
- NMU: rebuild with wxGTK3.2
Dec. 14, 2021 George V. Kouryachy 4.1-alt1
- Autobuild version bump to 4.1
- Remove already broken PERL support
- No upstream configure any more
Feb. 20, 2018 George V. Kouryachy 3.1-alt1
- Autobuild version bump to 3.1