On Sun, 20 Aug 2017, Mark Volkmann wrote: > How old is fish? > > Looking at the GitHub repo I see the oldest release there was on > 10/22/2005. Were there earlier versions somewhere else? > > Who were the original creators?
Hi Mark, Wikipedia says the first release was on 13 Februrary 2002, although I've never been able to verify that. Axel Liljencrantz was the main developer and maintainer of versions 1.0 to 1.23.1. Development was, I believe, largely done via the mailing list and the SourceForge site. Unfortunately he got a bit busy and the last 1.x release was in March 2009. Various people maintained forks at Gitorious and elsewhere, but no releases were ever made as far as I know. ridiculousfish got involved in about 2012 and released a beta of a fork called fishfish. This brought in a lot of the work of previous fish contributors, and I believe was blessed by Axel to become fish 2.0 officially. Five years later (seems hard to believe!) we are looking at releasing fish 3.0 next year. David Adam fish committer (since May 2013) zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
