color-code mit Homebrew, apt installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• colorcode

Projektgeschichte

The project had a dedicated website by October 2009, shortly after the 0.5 release. Its early releases expanded the game from a configurable MasterMind clone into a richer puzzle implementation with alternate game modes, accessibility-oriented scaling, preferences, a timer, stored game lists, and a built-in solver.

Adoptionsgeschichte

ColorCode entered Debian packaging in December 2009, which is the most visible upstream-cited adoption milestone. The supplied Homebrew metadata also maps it to Debian and Ubuntu packages, making it a small cross-distribution desktop game rather than a single-manager formula.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run the `colorcode` executable to play MasterMind variants with configurable color counts, column counts, duplicate-peg rules, predefined difficulty levels, and optional solver assistance.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ColorCode is a representative example of Homebrew carrying lightweight open-source desktop software alongside CLI tools. Its upstream history also shows the usual long tail of small Qt applications: source tarballs and distro packaging matter more than a large hosted forge presence.

Zeitleiste

• 2009: ColorCode 0.5 released and the dedicated project website launched.
• 2009: Debian packaging announced by upstream.
• 2010: ColorCode 0.6 added a second game mode and settings dialogs.
• 2011: ColorCode 0.7 added separate solver and timer threads plus game lists.
• 2015: ColorCode 0.8.5 became the first feature-complete Qt 5 release.
• 2023: ColorCode 0.8.7 added CMake as a build option while keeping qmake.

Related projects

• The project is explicitly positioned as a MasterMind clone and solver. Its package-manager footprint links it to desktop game packaging in Debian, Ubuntu, and Homebrew.

Quellen

• http://colorcode.laebisch.com/