Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 20:10:19 -0600 From: "Aaron Dalton" <aaron@daltons.ca> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/81612: New Port: games/p5-Games-Dice Message-ID: <E1DcDFr-000BKR-Pl@mail.finch.st> Resent-Message-ID: <200505290230.j4T2U2HT021157@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 81612
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: New Port: games/p5-Games-Dice
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun May 29 02:30:01 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Aaron Dalton
>Release: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD chariss.finch.st 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Sat Mar 5 16:29:20 MST 2005 ross@chariss.finch.st:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/CHARISS i386
>Description:
Games::Dice simulates die rolls. It uses a function-oriented (not
object-oriented) interface. No functions are exported by default. At
present, there are two functions which are exportable: roll and
roll_array. The latter is used internally by roll, but can also be
exported by itself.
The number and type of dice to roll is given in a style which should be
familiar to players of popular role-playing games: adb[+-*/b]c. a is
optional and defaults to 1; it gives the number of dice to roll. b
indicates the number of sides to each die; the most common, cube-shaped
die is thus a d6. % can be used instead of 100 for b; hence, rolling 2d%
and 2d100 is equivalent. roll simulates a rolls of b-sided dice and adds
together the results. The optional end, consisting of one of +-*/b and a
number c, can modify the sum of the individual dice. +-*/ are similar in
that they take the sum of the rolls and add or subtract c, or multiply or
divide the sum by c. (x can also be used instead of *.) Hence, 1d6+2 gives
a number in the range 3..8, and 2d4*10 gives a number in the range 20..80.
(Using / truncates the result to an int after dividing.) Using b in this
slot is a little different: it's short for "best" and indicates "roll a
number of dice, but add together only the best few". For example, 5d6b3
rolls five six- sided dice and adds together the three best rolls. This is
sometimes used, for example, in roll-playing to give higher averages.
Generally, roll probably provides the nicer interface, since it does the
adding up itself. However, in some situations one may wish to process the
individual rolls (for example, I am told that in the game Feng Shui, the
number of dice to be rolled cannot be determined in advance but depends on
whether any 6's were rolled); in such a case, one can use roll_array to
return an array of values, which can then be examined or processed in an
application-dependent manner.
This having been said, comments and additions (especially if accompanied
by code!) to Games::Dice are welcome. So, using the above example, if
anyone wishes to contribute a function along the lines of roll_feng_shui
to become part of Games::Dice (or to support any other style of die
rolling), you can contribute it to the author's address, listed below.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- submission.txt begins here ---
# This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before
# this line, and then unpack it by entering "sh file". Note, it may
# create directories; files and directories will be owned by you and
# have default permissions.
#
# This archive contains:
#
# p5-Games-Dice
# p5-Games-Dice/Makefile
# p5-Games-Dice/distinfo
# p5-Games-Dice/pkg-descr
# p5-Games-Dice/pkg-plist
#
echo c - p5-Games-Dice
mkdir -p p5-Games-Dice > /dev/null 2>&1
echo x - p5-Games-Dice/Makefile
sed 's/^X//' >p5-Games-Dice/Makefile << 'END-of-p5-Games-Dice/Makefile'
X# New ports collection makefile for: Games-Dice
X# Date created: 28 May 2005
X# Whom: Aaron Dalton <aaron@daltons.ca>
X#
X# $FreeBSD$
X#
X
XPORTNAME= Games-Dice
XPORTVERSION= 0.02
XCATEGORIES= games perl5
XMASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
XMASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= Games
XPKGNAMEPREFIX= p5-
X
XMAINTAINER= aaron@daltons.ca
XCOMMENT= Perl module to simulate die rolls
X
XMAN3= Games::Dice.3
X
XPERL_CONFIGURE= yes
X
X.include <bsd.port.mk>
END-of-p5-Games-Dice/Makefile
echo x - p5-Games-Dice/distinfo
sed 's/^X//' >p5-Games-Dice/distinfo << 'END-of-p5-Games-Dice/distinfo'
XMD5 (Games-Dice-0.02.tar.gz) = 69585be0bdf4875a0c80d046f22a3ab0
XSIZE (Games-Dice-0.02.tar.gz) = 3884
END-of-p5-Games-Dice/distinfo
echo x - p5-Games-Dice/pkg-descr
sed 's/^X//' >p5-Games-Dice/pkg-descr << 'END-of-p5-Games-Dice/pkg-descr'
XGames::Dice simulates die rolls. It uses a function-oriented (not
Xobject-oriented) interface. No functions are exported by default.
X
XThe number and type of dice to roll is given in a style which should be
Xfamiliar to players of popular role-playing games: adb[+-*/b]c. a is
Xoptional and defaults to 1; it gives the number of dice to roll. b
Xindicates the number of sides to each die. % can be used instead of 100
Xfor b; hence, rolling 2d% and 2d100 is equivalent. roll simulates a rolls
Xof b-sided dice and adds together the results. The optional end,
Xconsisting of one of +-*/b and a number c, can modify the sum of the
Xindividual dice. +-*/ are similar in that they take the sum of the rolls
Xand add or subtract c, or multiply or divide the sum by c. (x can also be
Xused instead of *.) Using b in this slot is a little different: it's short
Xfor "best" and indicates "roll a number of dice, but add together only the
Xbest few". For example, 5d6b3 rolls five six- sided dice and adds together
Xthe three best rolls.
X
XAuthor: Philip Newton <pne@cpan.org>
XWWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Games-Dice/
X
X- Aaron Dalton
Xaaron@daltons.ca
END-of-p5-Games-Dice/pkg-descr
echo x - p5-Games-Dice/pkg-plist
sed 's/^X//' >p5-Games-Dice/pkg-plist << 'END-of-p5-Games-Dice/pkg-plist'
X%%SITE_PERL%%/Games/Dice.pm
X%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Games/Dice/.packlist
X@dirrm %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Games/Dice
X@unexec rmdir %D/%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Games 2>/dev/null || true
X@unexec rmdir %D/%%SITE_PERL%%/Games 2>/dev/null || true
X
END-of-p5-Games-Dice/pkg-plist
exit
--- submission.txt ends here ---
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