[Simh] SIMH future releases / Sourceforge project (was RE: NetBSD5.0.2)

[Armistead, Jason]

So what *IS* the future for SIMH ?

 

Reading the last few posts, it appears that Bob Supnik is apparently not, for whatever reason, able to release SIMH versions at the rate he used to (prior to taking the job @ Unisys ?).  Now we have a somewhat ad-hoc Sourceforge repository, but there’s seemingly no roadmap going forward, just a bunch of patches gleaned from posts to the SIMH mailing list.

 

How do we plan to keep SIMH alive, well maintained, and vibrant into the future ?  At the moment, known bugs and lacking functionality generate traffic on the mailing list.  Who “owns” the content on the SIMH web site, and who is responsible for keeping it up-to-date also ?

 

Jason

 

From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Jason Stevens
Sent: Thursday, 2 September 2010 6:54 AM
To: Rick Murphy
Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] NetBSD5.0.2

 

I've been maintaining the sourceforge stuff... And I've been collecting patches from people or posts, and putting them on the site, as before that I've been providing builds for anyone outside of the linux/win32 environments.. (speaking of which work FINALLY got me some OSX access so I'll be updating with some 10.6.3 binaries...!).

 

Send me what you have, and I'll add it to the sourceforge page.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Rick Murphy <simh at rickmurphy.net> wrote:

At 06:14 AM 9/2/2010, Jason Stevens wrote:

	The direct link is here:
	
	

	<http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/Unofficial%20Patches/3.8.1/simh_vax_cpu_idle.zip/download>http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/Unofficial%20Patches/3.8.1/simh_vax_cpu_idle.zip/download

	
	
	I've placed all that I can in the 'browse all files'....


I have a question - is there ever going to be another official SIMH release, or is just going to be unofficial patches from here on?

I supplied Bob a set of corrections for the PDP8/FPP8A simulation code back in April of 2009, under the assumption that it'd show up in a 3.8-2 sometime but there's been no new releases since then. There's also nothing on the SIMH webpage pointing to the Source Forge project.

I'm sorry if I missed the history (apparently my mail server was blocking mail from this list due to some spam-blocking reason that I've now stopped, but what's going on with SIMH? Do I submit my patches to the sourceforge project now, and if so how do I do that?
Thanks,
       -Rick

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