About the development of INN 1.5.1 through 1.8 (2.0)

[Russ Allbery]

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> I have a question about our current SVN.

> We have tags for INN 1.5.1, INN 2.0, INN 2.1, INN 2.2.1 and all released
> versions after 2.2.1.

> I think 2.2.0 is revision 1724, according to the tar.gz, so we can
> probably add it.

That sounds like a good idea.  We probably just missed making a tag at the
time.

> Do we have the 1.x versions in our SVN after 1.5.1?  I see in the OLD
> section of ftp.isc.org there are 1.7.0, 1.7.1 and 1.7.2 versions after
> that one; the other versions seem to be only beta versions (1.5.2pre1
> and 1.6.0b1) so maybe INN 1.5.2 and 1.6.0 were never released.

I suspect that they were released but the tarballs were lost.  We weren't
as good at keeping releases around, and things were pretty chaotic back
then.  I also suspect there was no revision control in use at the time,
and that scrappy imported 1.5.1 and then imported 1.8-current when
building the initial CVS repository, but didn't have all the versions in
between.  But that's just a guess; I wasn't around at the time of the
original creation of the CVS repository and am not sure.

Everything that I was able to find when I started as primary maintainer is
on the web site.  More stuff is probably findable with sufficient
archeology, but I'm not sure where it would be.

> If I look for instance at the 1.7.0 tar.gz, I do not manage to match its
> CHANGES file with the changelog in our SVN.  Does it mean that there
> were two different development branches at that time?  One from ISC that
> was producing 1.x versions after 1.5.1 and another one in the CVS that
> became the current SVN?

There was some forking of development, and some "unofficial" versions.  I
seem to recall that the 1.6 release was by... Dave Barr, maybe?  And was
technically unofficial.  And there was also a sort-of fork after 1.7.2
while 2.0 was under development.

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