Golly for Windows Phone?

[zambozaxx]

Simple question: is, by any chance, Golly going to be ported to Windows Phone? Just asking, because the life apps that are now for WP suck...

[Andrew]

Simple question: is, by any chance, Golly going to be ported to Windows Phone?

I'm unlikely to do it, but I've recently re-organized the source code to make it a lot easier to port Golly to new platforms. The following diagram shows the current code structure in the git repository (available at http://sourceforge.net/p/golly/code/ci/master/tree/):

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 Golly for Android        Golly for iOS      Golly for Win/Mac/Linux
 -----------------       ---------------        ----------------
 |               |       |             |        |              |
 |  gui-android  |       |   gui-ios   |        |    gui-wx    |
 |               |       |             |        |              |
 -----------------       ---------------        ----------------
         ^                      ^                       ^
         |                      |                       |
          \                    /                       /
           \                  /                       /
            \                /                       /
             \              /                       /
            -------------------                    /
            |                 |                   /
            |    gui-common   |                  /
            |                 |                 /
            -------------------                /
                     ^                        /
                     |                       /
                     |                      /
                     |                     /
            -------------------           /
            |                 |          /
            |    gollybase    |________ /
            |                 |
            -------------------

If there are any WP programmers out there who might be interested in doing a Golly port I'd be happy to answer questions and help you get started.

PS. The Android port is nearly finished -- I hope to release a beta version in a few weeks. It should run on all devices (handsets or tablets) using Android 3.0 or later.