Re: [Iverilog-devel] Thinking of Icarus Verilog 10

[Martin W. <mai...@ma...>]

Stephen Williams wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Since we've been recommending git master for a while now, maybe
> it is time to make a release.
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You know this will get my vote! Development is a huge advance over v0.9 - time 
to get it in the hands of all our users.

Martin