Re: Aegis' birthday

Peter,

Speaking of cook, when is its birthday?

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.
>
>