[Simh] A new version...

[Larry Baker]

> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:57:48 -0400
> From: Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com>
> Subject: Re: [Simh] A new version...
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
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> This is why major software projects should have separate -user and - 
> dev
> mailing lists.  'Nuff said.
>

Separation of users from developers of SIMH is complicated by the fact  
that users must manually configure their systems, such as downloading  
and installing the libraries for Ethernet support, and then compile  
and link the simulator(s) they want to use.  Unlike the world of  
products with paid developers and Windows-centric marketing, where you  
are likely to have only one or two shrink-wrapped choices, SIMH is  
available to any user wiling to put in a minimum amount of effort with  
little more than a C compiler and a rudimentary development  
environment.  Perhaps the solution is for two types of "makefiles" (or  
batch scripts, or whatever): one for developers that want to minimize  
the time it takes to test new SIMH code, and may be confined to run  
well only on Linux, for example, and one for users, who only  
occasionally need to make a new version, but runs on all the systems  
users will want to use as a SIMH host.

Larry Baker
US Geological Survey
650-329-5608
baker at usgs.gov

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