[Cook] [Aegis] Aegis' birthday

[Peter Miller]

On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 21:09 -0500, Larry Wagner wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> Speaking of cook, when is its birthday?

The first 1.2 change set is dated 1992-Jun-19, so 1.1 was released a
little before then.  I would guess Cook 1.2 was released the same day as
Aegis 1.0, because they were uploaded to the same FTP site on the same
day.

My backups for 92 and 93 are lost, as they were on magneto-optical
disks, and I didn't transcribe them to tape before I left that job.
However, my 1991-Feb archives have an early version of Cook, and the
Changes file documents changes from 1.0 to 1.1, so I would guess that
1.1 was published on Usenet a little before then.

Additional sleuthing reveals that my first commit to Cook was
1989-May-16 (it definitely existed earlier, but without version control)
and a commit comment 1989-Nov-17 indicates this was 1.0, and probably
released to Usenet on or near that date.

Regards
Peter Miller


> LEW
> 
> On 09/21/2011 08:11 PM, Peter Miller wrote:
> > I got to wondering what Aegis' birthday was, so I delved into my ancient
> > backups, and find the following dates:
> >
> > First integration of Aegis self hosting Aegis:
> >          Fri Sep 14 15:19:21 1990 AEST
> >          Fri Sep 14 05:19:21 1990 GMT
> > This is slightly earlier than I had remembered.  Most of the features
> > were already present: code reviews, automated tests, continuous
> > integration.  I had been using it to host Cook for a few months prior.
> >
> > At the time, I was not using "post numbered" releases.  So the last
> > change set of a given version number marks its release date.
> >
> > The last 1.0 change set was dated 1992-Jun-13.  This is the date of the
> > first public release.  Or is it?
> >
> > Delving into my email archive, it seems to be more complicated than one
> > expects, given today's "huge" network speeds.  The 1.0 tarball was
> > 424kB, and with Usenet on 1200 baud modems, that was a very long upload.
> > I have email replies to a Usenet posting I appear to have made, looking
> > for alpha testers, and an offer of FTP space.  The first reply is dated
> > 1992-Jun-05.
> >
> > However, I also have an email I sent to the FTP site, telling them of a
> > file in incoming (aegis.tar.Z) dated 1992-Jun-13.  Which would seem to
> > validate the 1992-Jun-13 date seen in the project history.
> >
> > Mark it in you diaries, folks: Aegis turns 20 on 2012-Jun-13.
> > We'll have to think of something appropriately celebratory.
> >
> >
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