Hi, I'm a researcher who frequently uses gem5 in my work. I was wondering why gem5 doesn't use release versioning instead of having users pull directly off of the master branch on git?
Release versioning would be helpful as we can more reliably evaluate our designs. Versioning, along with release notes, will let us know what's been changed, removed, or added to the code base. Something I've experienced is pulling gem5 one day and my experiments break due to functions being changed or removed and I had no idea. It'd also be helpful to have releases so that gem5 doesn't change on us multiple times in the course of a week. Thank you for all of the time and effort you put into maintaining gem5, it's extremely valuable to us! Mark Gallagher Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan
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