<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div><div>-Henry<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 November 2016 at 16:16, Johnny Billquist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se" target="_blank">bqt@softjar.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2016-11-27 21:12, Paul (lists) Hardy wrote:<br>
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Isn’t it time that SimH 4.x came out of Beta status and became the<br>
current release, so it gets picked up by the various package release<br>
systems?<br>
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I’ve just done apt-get install simh on a Raspberry Pi over a new<br>
Raspbian (Debian) install, and it still gets 3.8.1-5.<br>
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What’s the current timescale for shift to 4.x as the live version to happen?<br>
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Hum. Isn't this something outside the control of simh? What version various packaging systems use is up to the packaging systems.<br>
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simh 3.9 was released many years ago, but apparently are still not picked up by the debian system you are using.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Johnny<br>
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