[Iverilog-devel] Thinking of Icarus Verilog 10

[Stephen W. <st...@ic...>]

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I know this has been discussed before, but I want to bring it up
again. I think we are due for a new release.

I've been noting that a huge portion of users are finding that
their needs are met by recent snapshots that are not otherwise
handled by the 0.9 release. We've been spending some amount of
our support time just telling people that "it's been fixed" in
the master branch.

But there are many users out there who get their Icarus Verilog
fix from package managers, and so are using the 0.9 release. These
people are not particularly motivated to build from source, and
after all they shouldn't need to. Our making a release is our
way to say that this is what we recommend.

Since we've been recommending git master for a while now, maybe
it is time to make a release.

Also, name change. Rather then go to 0.10.x, let's simple call
it version 10. Somewhere along the line, Icarus Verilog became
production ready while we weren't looking. I think the leading
zero is no longer informative.

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