<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite">Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:57:48 -0400<br>From: Mark Abene <<a href="mailto:phiber@phiber.com">phiber@phiber.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Simh] A new version...<br>To: <a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:48D59C0C.1050502@phiber.com">48D59C0C.1050502@phiber.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>This is why major software projects should have separate -user and -dev<br>mailing lists. 'Nuff said.<br><br></blockquote><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Separation of users from developers of SIMH is complicated by the fact that users must manually configure their systems, such as downloading and installing the libraries for Ethernet support, and then compile and link the simulator(s) they want to use. Unlike the world of products with paid developers and Windows-centric marketing, where you are likely to have only one or two shrink-wrapped choices, SIMH is available to any user wiling to put in a minimum amount of effort with little more than a C compiler and a rudimentary development environment. Perhaps the solution is for two types of "makefiles" (or batch scripts, or whatever): one for developers that want to minimize the time it takes to test new SIMH code, and may be confined to run well only on Linux, for example, and one for users, who only occasionally need to make a new version, but runs on all the systems users will want to use as a SIMH host.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Larry Baker</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">US Geological Survey</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">650-329-5608</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:baker@usgs.gov">baker@usgs.gov</a></font></p> </div> </div><br></body></html>