[Simh] Getting SimH 4 past Beta stage?

[Johnny Billquist]

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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                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
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