On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 21:22 +0200, Sven Utcke wrote: > > > I'll go ahead with the questions: > > > 1.) Why and when was F-Spot created ? > > When is simple enough; the first code repo tag was created on @ > > 2003-11-08 06:52:57 (GMT) > Although it is of course possible that some of the code might have > existed before, and that this is simply the date some (new?) version > control paradigm was used.
That date is from the code repo on GNOME. And since the release Mono 1.0 was on June 30th, 2004 [and F-Spot is a Mono application], it is hard to imagine there was much before that point. > > > Was it the first FOSS photo management application ? > > No clue, I *VERY* much doubt it. I'd wager the "first FOSS photo > > management application" is long forgotten, and was probably circa > > the 1980s. This is not a new category of applications. > Wikipedia claims: > The first digital camera that was actually marketed commercially was > sold in December of 1989 in Japan, the DS-X by Fuji > So before that, and probably for some years after, there would not > have been much need for a "photo management application". Even xv > only dates back to the early 1990s. And that's an early image viewer > and sort of rather crude editor, with hardly any decent management > functionality. We can get into a pedantic argument about what "photo management application" means! :) Scanning physical images was possible prior to the digital camera; and there was software for storing as well as categorizing those images. Scanners were popular in the 1990s prior to the wide-spread adoption of digital cameras. I logged no shortage of hours standing at a flatbed scanner. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:[email protected]> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
