From: Ronald P. R. <ron...@xs...> - 2012-03-29 21:13:26
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Op 29 mrt 2012, om 22:17, schreef Alexei Svitkine: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Giulio Paci <giu...@gm...> wrote: > >> 1) During the package development we noticed that much time has passed >> since latest official release. Is a new official release planned? >> Official releases are not a requirement, but helps keep track of where a >> package come from. > > Unfortunately, the project does not have enough resources to make > official releases. So we have either CVS tip of tree, or unofficial > releases that are build / posted at emaculation.com from arbitrary CVS > revisions. As far as I am aware, there have not been any "official" releases of both BasiliskII and SheepShaver since 2006. In the OSX builds I post at emaculation.com, I manually edit the Info.plist file to add the cvs date to the version number to discern it from previous builds. SheepShaver has version 2.3 since May 2006. My 11 February 2012 build, posted on emaculation.com forum, identifies itself as 2.3 (2012-02-11) in Get Info String and as 2.3.20120211 in Bundle versions string, short. Despite that, this standstill in version numbering confuses people. A recent build is very different from the 2006 release version. I wonder if it would not be possible to draw a line from time to time, for instance after a meaningful improvement in the source code, and make the source be a next version. Best Regards, Ronald. |