[Simh] Getting SimH 4 past Beta stage?

[Henry Bent]

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.

-Henry

On 27 November 2016 at 16:16, Johnny Billquist <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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