Geant4 - outdated and not maintained

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hello,

The maintainer of Geant4 doesn't respond to any of my emails or any ticket.

I would like to see Geant4 upgraded to 9.5 and I would like to create
and maintain a port for Gate 6.2. I have a working CMake-based port
for Geant4 9.5, but it still needs some work to support all the
options that are currently supported in 9.4.

I have a meeting with one of the developers of Gate on Thursday. I
hope that he will help me resolve some problems I have with building
the current version of Gate (no developer uses Mac OS X, so support is
very limited). The latest version of Gate depends on Geant4 9.5, so I
really need the latest version if I want to create a port for Gate.

My questions are:
- Is anyone else willing to take over maintenance of Geant4?
- Would it be acceptable to have versioned Geant4 ports and if so -
how many versions would be acceptable? Would it be ok to have support
for 4.9.4, 4.9.5 and 4.9.6? The last one is experimental and the
versions are not really compatible with each other. The version 4 in
Geant4 is really a different program from Geant3. So the numbering is
actually 9.4, 9.5 and 9.6. Physicists usually need a very specific
version to run their applications. (There is one additional number,
for example 4.9.5.p02 to denote patchlevel 2 - something that can
safely be upgraded without the need for a special version.)

Mojca