gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog 0.7.20030518 now in Fink

[Charles Lepple <clepple@ghz.cc>]

If you're not running Mac OS X, you can safely stop reading now.

If you're using Mac OS X, but haven't discovered the wonders of Fink 
(yeah, I'm talkin' to you!), here's one more reason to look at Fink.

Icarus Verilog has just been accepted into Fink's "unstable" category. 
In theory, this means that future versions will be available from Fink 
much sooner after Steve releases them.

You still need the Developer tools for this, though. Setup instructions 
are here:

   http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/install.php

Instructions on using the "unstable" tree are here:

   http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#unstable

For iverilog to be available to a wider audience, though, it needs to 
move to 'stable', where it should eventually make its way into the next 
Fink binary distribution. To facilitate this process, I need to collect 
positive feedback from several users. Some of you have already tried my 
earlier snapshots. If that's the case, it would be much appreciated if 
you could just verify that I didn't bungle anything up with the version 
that's in unstable now.

Finally, a big thanks to Steve Williams-- he quickly approved all of 
the OS X iverilog patches that I threw at him, which means that the 
Fink powers-that-be didn't have to mess around with any patch files.

regards,

--
Charles Lepple <clepple@ghz.cc>
http://www.ghz.cc/charles/