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@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +INTRO + +This version of dist has been written by Raphael Manfredi based on +previous work from Larry Wall and Harlan Stenn. + +HISTORY + +I started working on this in September 1990 while I was still a student +at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France. From then on, I worked +during two years at ISE (building the Eiffel 3.0 compiler -- the run-time +part and code generation). Since I chose to use metaconfig for the run-time +library, which is written in plain C, I had the chance to continue improving +the whole dist package. + +By the end of 1991, I contacted Harlan Stenn <harlan@mumps.pfcs.com> who had +been working separately on his own dist version. I started the painful merge. +At the same time, I started releasing alpha version of dist 3.0. + +In 1992, I started a parallel project: mailagent. The dist 2.0 release upon +which this work is based included a simple perl script called mailagent, whose +sole job was to filter out @SH commands to automatically mail patches to some +people. I liked the idea of having a perl mail filter and so I extended +mailagent up to the point where it became really big and only marginally +dist-related. I released it on the net (comp.sources.misc) on July 1992, after +7 months of hard work. + +In March 1993, I left ISE and returned to France to join ACRI. The dist 3.0 +package was "almost" finished by that time, but the documentation was no +longer accurate and needed a lot of work. My new job does not give me enough +free time, so things have been longer than I expected. + +In July 1993, under the pressure of many of my alpha testers, I decided to +go into the final process, sacrifying nights and week ends to finish up what +turns out to have been a 3 years process... + +CREDITS + +My first thanks will go to Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com> who wrote perl +and dist 2.0 in the first place. I would never have dived into dist 2.0 +if it had not been written in perl. + +During my work, I had the chance to benefit some useful comments and +contributions from Craig Kolb <craig@weedeater.math.yale.edu> who +has been the very first user of metaconfig (with a rather pre-historic +version). He used it on its rayshade 4.0 release (a ray tracing program). + +Then of course, many thanks are due to my co-worker, Harlan Stenn +<harlan@mumps.pfcs.com>. Although I did the integration of his work all by +myself, I have found many good ideas in his early work. For instance, he wrote +the first implementation of the metalint program, something I could not live +without today! His remarks, comments and encouragements have always been +appreciated, even though we did not always agree on the same things at the +same time... + +Then I would like to thank the many contributors to the metaconfig units. +I hope I'm not forgetting anybody! Here they come, in alphabetical order: +(sorted on the first name) + + Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu> + Craig Kolb <craig@weedeater.math.yale.edu> + Graham Stoney <greyham@research.canon.oz.au> + Harlan Stenn <harlan@mumps.pfcs.com> + Jan Djarv <Jan.Djarv@sa.erisoft.se> + Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com> + Ralf E. Stranzenbach <ralf@reswi.en.open.de> + Scott Grosch <garath@engin.umich.edu> + Syd Weinstein <syd@dsi.com> + Thomas Neumann <tom@smart.bo.open.de> + Wayne Davison <davison@borland.com> + +If I forgot your name, please let me know, and accept my apologies (not +necessarily in that order ;-). + +Finally, thank you Shigeya Suzuki <shigeya@foretune.co.jp> for hosting the +dist-users mailing list. Send mail to majordomo@foretune.co.jp to subscribe. + + Raphael Manfredi <Raphael.Manfredi@pobox.com> + Lyon, France, August 1993 + +[This section added by subsequent patches] + +PATCHES + +I'm grateful to the following people for sending me patches and/or reporting +bugs and giving me some suggestions (sorted on the first name): + + Andy Dougherty <andy@crystal.phys.lafayette.edu> + Graham Stoney <greyham@research.canon.oz.au> + Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@snakemail.hut.fi> + Joseph H Buehler <jhpb@sarto.gaithersburg.md.us> + Keith Walker <kew@timesink.spk.wa.us> + Scott Presnell <srp@cgl.ucsf.edu> + Wayne Davison <davison@borland.com> + +Due to a mistake of mine, changes from Wayne Davison were flagged 'WAD', +but his middle initial being an 'E', new ones are now flagged as 'WED'. +Sorry Wayne, I did not know. We don't use middle initials here in Europe. + +Special thanks to the perl5 Patch Pumpkin Holders (in chronological order): + + Andy Dougherty <andy@crystal.phys.lafayette.edu> + Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + +for their wonderful creativity. Perl5 is by far the largest metaconfig +customer with the widest audience, so Configure got run on a variety +of new platforms requiring specific fixes... which they provided, +thereby greatly enhancing the metaconfig "portability database". + + Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com> + Grenoble, France, February 1997 + |