jk3one wrote:At least all this seems to indicate that there WILL be a version 0.75. An official one, I mean. Great! I remember that I started a similar thread a long time ago. I was afraid since then that the DOSBox authors for some reason could not publish an offical 0.75. For some reason, DOSBox seems dead for years now, although they keep developing in the background. It almost seems as if the reason is nothing technical. More an unwillingness to MAKE it offical. I wonder why...
I think a certain level of polish and stability needs to be achieved for a flagship release. DosBox 0.75 is going to be huge, and I'm excited for it.
Dominus wrote:I doubt 0.75 will ever come... Maybe 0.8 or so 😉
Haha, maybe. 😉 Tbh, DosBox's current version numbering scheme kind of reminds me of how the Linux kernel was stuck at 2.6.* for however many years... then one day they decided to release 3.0, and not too long after, 4.0.
DosFreak wrote:Every time one of these threads pops up the release gets pushed back another year.
Now you know and can devote that brainpower to more important pursuits.
I was actually afraid of invoking that to be honest. I know I'm not the first person to have asked this question, but at least I'm not begging for 0.75 to be released, as I know it isn't ready.
Qbix wrote:There are some things that need to be fixed before it is ready.
There is no need to bug us about it. It doesn't help or speed it up.
That's pretty much the general impression I get. Things have changed a LOT since 0.74, after all. Speaking of, wasn't there some issue with DosBox relying on an old version of SDL that newer versions are completely incompatible with? I know it's been a problem when it's come to compiling it on Linux.