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On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 18:30, Peter Coghlan <groups@...> wrote: > Does anyone know what the history is to what appear to be forks?? Is new development focused on Z/Architecture which is not very much interest if you are not intending to flout IBM's licensing terms, or are there things of interest for older OSes? I had a brief play with 4.2.1 SDL.? The first thing I noticed is that the Hercules console is somewhat noisier with messages that seem to be of more interest to someone developing Hercules than running it.? Does the logging system have a level of DEBUG that can have messages on for developers and off for users? Some option names in the config file have been changed in way that will, at least in the future, be incompatible.? That isn't a big deal in that I can soon clean up the config file but could have a bearing for things like the sixpack where a config file is shipped. The other, positive, thing I noticed is that the ECPS:VM has had more of the assists implemented and some documentation written for this feature.? Some of the documentation seems to apply to 3.13 too. I have GCC 9.2 and both 3.13 and 4.2.1 produce a barrage of compiler warnings.? Are any of the developers interested in checking these out to see if they represent bugs? I also believe there is a version that supports a fictitious 380 architecture which, if I remember what I read correctly, is happy to tell the OS that it uses 24 bit addressing and supports 16M of memory but allows programs that know better to get at the rest. |
