On Sun, 20 Aug 2017, David Adam wrote: > 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? > > Wikipedia says the first release was on 13 Februrary 2002, although I've > never been able to verify that.
Sorry, should read 2005. [DAA] > 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 > Cheers, David Adam zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Ask Me About Our SLA! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
