Hey Mark, We hear you, and this is a very good idea :). Expect to hear something about this in the next few weeks. There are a few big announcements coming, in fact. I'll be posting a number of proposals for feedback soon.
Cheers, Jason On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, 9:41 AM Mark Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a researcher who frequently uses gem5 in my work. I was wondering why > gem5 doesn't use release versioning instead of having users pull directly > off of the master branch on git? > > Release versioning would be helpful as we can more reliably evaluate our > designs. Versioning, along with release notes, will let us know what's been > changed, removed, or added to the code base. Something I've experienced is > pulling gem5 one day and my experiments break due to functions being > changed or removed and I had no idea. It'd also be helpful to have releases > so that gem5 doesn't change on us multiple times in the course of a week. > > Thank you for all of the time and effort you put into maintaining gem5, > it's extremely valuable to us! > > Mark Gallagher > Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
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