As an aside, I'm the maintainer of the simh package on FreeBSD. I've stuck at 3.9, again because of the ongoing development of 4.0. If there is a stable version I can grab, I'll do a 4.x package.
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 10:56:52 -0600 Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.ov...@gmail.com> wrote: > A short answer to Dave's question. I am running Linux Mint, but not > the very latest version. I imagine the most recent version does have > 3.9 in it. Since 4.0 is still marked "beta" it is probably not > included. > > Further details: Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu which in turn is > derived from Debian. If packages are upgraded at the head of the > stream, it is at least supposed to "trickle down" to the dependent > distributions. The differences from Debian to Ubuntu to Mint are > largely related to user interfaces rather than to actual software > packages, as I understand it. So if upgraded versions get into > Debian, they will appear in subsequent releases of the descendents. > > I confess I've grown lazy in my old age here. Mint issues LTS (long > term support) versions that are supported for up to five years now. > Since most of what I do is not bleeding edge, I've stopped rushing to > upgrade the entire OS every time a new version comes out. I'm running > 17.1 of Mint here, and I believe they are up to 19.x now. > > Including concise "cookbook" style instructions is always useful *if* > they can be counted on to work. That can be the rub. I fully > understand that developers can't always test everything on every > possible hardware and software platform. Mark's succinct directions > are great, but would be even better if a list of environments in > which they have been tested were to be attached. > > As a negative example, I recently tried someone's "concise" > instructions for building an emulated environment to run/test Android > apps on Linux. I know Android developers do this regularly, and often > even do their development on Linux. However, these instructions were > a disaster. They may have worked on some specific system, but they > exploded here and I'm still picking out bits of debris that were left > all over the file system. > > --Gary > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Hittner, David T [US] (MS) < > david.hitt...@ngc.com> wrote: > > > So two follow on action items, now that the problem seems to be > > solved: > > > > > > > > 1) How can we work with this Linux vendor to provide a baseline > > SIMH 4.0 package instead of the older SIMH 3.8-1 package? > > > > > > > > 2) Should the instructions for downloading and building the latest > > SIMH that Mark provided be included in the FAQ (under Linux hosts)? > > > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
