Deal Release News

Deal 3.1.9 Released

2010-02-24T18:02:00.000-05:00

I was doing some research based on the work of Gordon Bower, and I stumbled on a few issues that apparently have been around for a while.

Changes in 3.1.9:

Fixed issue #14 - smartstack was broken on OS X
Fixed issue #15 - holding procedures implementation incomplete
Added documentation of pattern functions to advanced.html
Minor documentation fix

Deal link fixed

2010-02-15T09:52:00.001-05:00

Okay, with the release of the latest version, I broke my web site, and the link to Deal no longer worked.

I've fixed it, and the software can be downloaded from the usual location.

Deal 3.1.8 released

2010-02-12T17:22:00.000-05:00

Changes in Deal 3.1.8

* Added patternfunc, patternclass, and patterncond, which are similar in
     function to the shapefunc, shapeclass, and shapecond routines. [In
     Deal, a shape is the ordered list of suit lengths: s-h-d-c. A pattern
     is sorted by lengths (decreasing.) So the 3-4-5-1 shape has the pattern
     5431.

* Added documentation to commands-body.html for the new pattern procedures

* Added google analytics code to the documentation (for my web site
     only - local documentation does not have the google analytics)

* [Internals] Changed occurances of "hand" in variable names to "seat"
     when it refers to a location at the table (North, East, South, West.)

Deal 3.1.7 released

2008-10-31T19:07:00.001-04:00

Changes in Deal 3.1.7

* Added code to pass argument values (argc, argv, argv0) when using the
'-x' flag

* Added code to allow for easier build against Tcl 8.3.

* Updated binky points with newly computed values. The new version
does not have binky::defense.suit or binky::defense.nt.
Added documentation for Binky Points evaluators.

* Fixed 64-bit builds using a fix found in Christoph Berg's Ubuntu
package for Deal.

* Added another fix by Christoph Berg which improves random number
seeding

* Added Make.ubuntu and Make.mac-osx to source release build

* Clarified some build and install notes

* Fixed docs to use './deal' rather than 'deal'

Deal 3.1.6 released

2008-09-11T16:23:00.000-04:00

Changes in Deal 3.1.6:

* Added newLTC function suggested by Rex Livingston

* Merged in changes with DDS 1.1.9 (about 5% performance increase in
double dummy solving in tests of average deals)

* Moderate changes in documentation

* Moved the source code to a Google Code project, at http://andrews-deal.googlecode.com/

Deal source code now available on Google Code

2008-09-08T23:50:00.003-04:00

I decided to put the Deal source code in a public source code repository, so I've put it up on Google Code. You can browse the code there, and it will give you instructions to check out the code. The URL is:

http://andrews-deal.googlecode.com/

Google Code also comes with an issues tracker and a Wiki, so people can contribute complaints, documentation, example scripts, etc.

Deal 3.1.5 released

2008-07-19T04:38:00.004-04:00

A very minor update.

   * Changed "stringbox" procedures to allow Unicode characters

   * Small changes to DDS to clarify code and very slightly improve performance (fixing a
     'bug' that I had created which required holding_t type to be unsigned int rather
     that unsigned short

   * Allow fully played tricks to be passed with the -trick option to 'dds' command

   * Documentation for 'dds'  -trick option

   * Reorganization of commands documentation file to create a non-framed version

Deal 3.1.4 released

2008-06-10T17:15:00.002-04:00

* Added -trick flag to dds

* Allowed for inclusion of Tcl release libraries

* Moved most of deal.tcl to lib/features.tcl

Deal 3.1.3 Released

2008-06-05T03:33:00.003-04:00

Whoops, just found a major performance error I made in changes to Bo Haglund's double dummy solver. A one-line fix improved performance by 14%, so I thought I'd quickly update my last point release.

Change notes:


* Fixed performance issue in DDS that I introduced in Deal 3.1.0.

* Added -x command line flag

Deal 3.1.2: New Mac OS X binary

2008-06-04T18:54:00.002-04:00

Updated Mac OS X binary release. Binary is now built with -fast optimization flag, which speeds up double-dummy solving by a whole 3% or so.

Deal 3.1.2 released

2008-06-04T02:49:00.002-04:00

Changes:

* Added dds command for more control over the double dummy solver

* Added 'universal' target to Makefile for building Mac universal binaries

* Added tests for double-dummy solver, including Great 88 file

* Performance tweaks to the double-dummy solver

* Fixed a typo bug in deal.tcl

* Added full_deal command

* Added unicode output option for default format (to put out suit symbols)

* Changed to allow "-" as void in inputs

* Fixed seeding with seed_deal command

* Updated documentation and built a documentation-management system