[Simh] Getting SimH 4 past Beta stage?

[Paul (lists) Hardy]

I think that is the crucial point, that SimH 4.0 is tagged as a Beta, and hence the packaging systems (a) won't take it, and (b) won't take any other interim versions like 3.9 because they expect 4.0 to replace it imminently.

Note that this was observed on Raspbian, which is not a minority operating system - the 11 millionth Raspberry Pi shipped this month, not to mention all the upstream Debian installations.

So I ask again what are the plans for getting SimH 4.0 out of Beta status?

Don't get me wrong, I think SimH and the folk that maintain and extend it are wonderful, but enquiringly minds want to know!

Regards,

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On 27 Nov 2016, at 21:38, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> On 2016-11-27 22:25, Henry Bent wrote:
> Indeed, though packaging systems like to use released versions of
> software, and users like to use whatever their packaging system offers
> them.  Having any sort of formal, numbered SIMH release - call it 4.0 or
> 3.99 or 7.5q for all that it matters - will encourage packaging systems
> to update to that version, and will then expose more users to the most
> current version of the software.  A very significant number of changes
> have happened since the last formal release (3.9) and it would seem
> appropriate to have a more modern version available to most users.

Right. But notice that his packaging system installed 3.8.1-5, so they are not even on 3.9...

   Johnny

> 
> -Henry
> 
> On 27 November 2016 at 16:16, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
> 
>    On 2016-11-27 21:12, Paul (lists) Hardy wrote:
> 
>        Isn’t it time that SimH 4.x came out of Beta status and became the
>        current release, so it gets picked up by the various package release
>        systems?
> 
> 
> 
>        I’ve just done apt-get install simh on a Raspberry Pi over a new
>        Raspbian (Debian) install, and it still gets 3.8.1-5.
> 
> 
> 
>        What’s the current timescale for shift to 4.x as the live
>        version to happen?
> 
> 
>    Hum. Isn't this something outside the control of simh? What version
>    various packaging systems use is up to the packaging systems.
> 
>    simh 3.9 was released many years ago, but apparently are still not
>    picked up by the debian system you are using.
> 
>            Johnny
> 
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