4 Maintainer: Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>
5 Standards-Version: 3.0.1
9 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, perl5, libnet-perl, libhtml-parser-perl, liburi-perl, libmime-base64-perl, libdigest-md5-perl, libwww-perl
10 Description: Distributed Artificial Life client
11 DLIFE is a distributed version of Tom S. Ray's Tierra artificial life
12 program. Note that the machine language used is similar to but not
13 compatible with Tierra. Tom Ray talks about his work (as far as I
14 know, never completed) to create a ``Digital Reserve''. The DLIFE
15 project is a development of this.
17 In other words, it's an alternative to the tedious process of cracking
18 RC5 keys or searching for aliens. You've got a supercomputer on your
19 desk, let's go and create some life ...
21 It consists of a highly optimized engine for running the artificial
22 life cells in a virtual machine, written in C, and some Perl scripts
23 which can upload and download cells from central ``cell-bank''