On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 04:30 PM, Fish Fish wrote:
Eh? Since when are official releases of Hercules v4 only beta releases? What constitutes an "official" release?
Fish,It probably has something to do with the flow, or the lack thereof, of SDL Hercules V4 into various Linux distributions, such as Arch, or Fedora, or even Ubuntu. I'm not saying a person can not acquire and install it on these distros. I have, and so have others, but you can't just issue the distribution's install command, and get V4.? For instance, for Fedora, this is what I see available, for all hercules.[xmas@reindeer ~]$ dnf list *hercules*
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:06 ago on Fri 31 Dec 2021 04:49:05 PM CST.
Installed Packages
hercules.x86_64?????????????????????? 3.13-8.fc34??????????????????????? @fedora
[xmas@reindeer ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four)[xmas@reindeer ~]$ dnf info herculesLast metadata expiration check: 0:02:21 ago on Fri 31 Dec 2021 04:43:48 PM CST.Installed PackagesName???????? : herculesVersion????? : 3.13Release????? : 8.fc34Architecture : x86_64Size???????? : 6.8 MSource?????? : hercules-3.13-8.fc34.src.rpmRepository?? : @SystemFrom repo??? : fedoraSummary????? : Hercules S/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture emulatorURL????????? : http://www.hercules-390.eu/License????? : QPLDescription? : Hercules is an emulator for the IBM System/370, ESA/390, and???????????? : z/Architecture series of mainframe computers. It is capable of???????????? : running any IBM operating system and applications that a real???????????? : system will run, as long as the hardware needed is emulated.???????????? : Hercules can emulate FBA and CKD DASD, tape, printer, card???????????? : reader, card punch, channel-to-channel adapter, LCS Ethernet, and???????????? : printer-keyboard, 3270 terminal, and 3287 printer devices.[xmas@reindeer ~]$
?... Mark S.
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