From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta Subject: Re: Old versions of GNU Emacs Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:16:28 +0900 Message-ID: References: <00f601c4cd12$ad6d66b0$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100745974 24662 80.91.229.6 (18 Nov 2004 02:46:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Stefan' , xemacs-beta@xemacs.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 03:46:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CUcJC-0005DF-00 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 03:46:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUcS2-0002VG-7i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:55:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUcRr-0002VB-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUcRq-0002Uz-UU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:55:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUcRq-0002Uw-Oj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.32.8.214] (helo=tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUcIx-0008FD-9k; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:45:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp (mailgate54.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.193]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id iAI2jWa03820; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:45:33 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id iAI2jWm09478; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:45:32 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from edsgm01.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.50.208.11]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id iAI2jVq28196; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:45:31 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by edsgm01.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAI2GWEg004146; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:16:33 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mctpc71 (mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp [10.30.118.121]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.12.10/8.12.8/EDcg v2.01-mc/1046780839) with ESMTP id iAI2GTwt003220; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:16:29 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mctpc71 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 02217415; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:16:28 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "Ben Wing" System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <00f601c4cd12$ad6d66b0$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> (Ben Wing's message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:02:36 -0600") Original-Lines: 22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30002 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:17020 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30002 "Ben Wing" writes: > What was the first version checked into CVS? The date on revision 1.1 of src/editfns.c is 1991-06-29, commited by Jim Blandy. Judging from ChangeLog entries around that time, it _looks_ like possibly the CVS repository was created by him when he was working on first version of Emacs 19 -- there are many entries like "merge from Emacs 18.59 ...", and references to version "19.0". A quick query to Jim might get a more accurate reply, but it seems roughly accurate to say it starts with version 19. [My recollection is that RMS didn't use CVS for a very long time after that though, so I suppose the CVS copy may not be authoritative for older versions of 19.] -Miles -- "I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy on a task." --Robert Frosch, VP, GM Research