Kaleb Barrett

> have to update occasionally Anaconda does not intend to ever release another 32-bit build, [see the second paragraph of the 4.5.12 release notes](https://www.anaconda.com/blog/anaconda-distribution-2018-12-released). So "4.5.12" is and will always...

Ah, I did not notice at first you were talking about Windows. I had a user report on error using 32 bit Anaconda on a RHEL7 machine, so I had...

@chrisjbillington Have you seen #168? I tried a while ago with the same fix, but had trouble getting a test to actually work.

> Are there any cases where the SCRIPT_FILE would need to be executed before the vsim command? I don't know what other people use this for and I'd rather not...

Also, you are encouraged to copy-paste-modify the Makefiles to suit your needs. They are not capable of being a universal solution in their current state. They are licensed as BSD...

I think that crosses over with #1872.

See the [startup hook](https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb/blob/2b5b820c4ded3cb22852993471dcb99b1eadf326/cocotb/share/lib/vpi/VpiCbHdl.cpp#L469-L476). Looks like Xcelium/IUS does something different for startup. Not sure why, there is no note. You could try removing that condition and see if that works?...

@garmin-mjames Enforcing single handles to objects seems actively bad, or am I missing something? VHDL has the concept of aliases, aliases likely would resolve to the same object and have...

I think I might see what this was for. VPI object lifetimes *should* be tied to Python handles, but they are not. It is possible when referencing the same object...

I think we (and I mean me mostly) probably need to take a step and think about this problem in terms of what changing this means for the user. Caching...