[Simh] SimH on Raspberry Pi - out of date?

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
So do I, but I'm also running Raspbian. It's, ah, causing me to feel
rather peeved. For our other favorite, I typically end up building it
from source.... We can do the same, but a lot of us would rather use
existing packages.

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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at rawfeddogs.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:17:55PM -0000, Paul Hardy 2 wrote:
>
>> I've been running some VAX emulations on PC and on Raspberry Pi, and I note
>> that the version of SimH that you get with Rapbian is a rather elderly
>> 3.8-1. What are the plans to get 4.0 be something other than Beta, which is
>> presumably a prerequisite for it being pulled as a supported package on
>> Raspbian?
>
> With Raspbian being based on Debian it's not likely you'll find the latest
> versions of anything in Raspbian's repos.  Debian errs on the side of
> stability and takes its time with getting the latest versions of packages
> into its "stable" branch.  I'm not familiar with Raspbian.  I only have one
> Raspberry Pi and I'm running Arch Linux on it.  With regular Debian there is
> a "testing" branch that one can switch to to get more up to date software.
> Even in Debian's testing branch the latest version of SIMH available is
> 3.8.1-5.
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