>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Diekhans <[email protected]> writes:
> Thanks Rainer .. this leaves us with the mystery, who was Tale?! I think 'tale' was an emacs package back then, though I completely forget what it was. Or maybe it was a usernamer of a developer? In any case, the message doesn't help. But again, let's try to release early and often to get some momentum behind this again. 8.4.0 please? > Dr Rainer Woitok <[email protected]> writes: >> Mark, >> >> On Monday, 2025-09-22 10:45:59 -0700, you wrote: >> >> > ... >> > When we brought VM into git, we integrated several not merged >> > branches. This appears to have come from one of these. >> >> Not quite. In both, the current GitLab and the old Bazaar repositories >> the next to oldest changeset dates from 2004-05-02 21:30:26 +0000, is >> authored by Robert Widhopf <[email protected]> and has the log message "Ini- >> tial Import of VM 7.18". According to file "HISTORY.md" this was the >> next to last release from Kyle Jones. In this changeset files "vm-*.el" >> are still residing in the toplevel directory rather than in subdirectory >> "./lisp/", and checking out this changeset and doing >> >> $ grep tale vm-reply.el >> (defun vm-help-tale () >> (error "tale is an idiot, and so are you. :-)")) >> (if vm-tale-is-an-idiot >> (vm-help-tale)) >> $ >> >> more than twenty-one years later produces strangely familiar output :-) >> >> Sincerely, >> Rainer
