From 8bfc5756fb68e0b13d7e7c0073ad5b9a4790d1b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rmanfredi Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:32:52 +0000 Subject: Moving project to sourceforge. git-svn-id: https://dist.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dist/trunk/dist@1 190e5f8e-a817-0410-acf6-e9863daed9af --- Credits | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 112 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Credits (limited to 'Credits') diff --git a/Credits b/Credits new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af26e33 --- /dev/null +++ b/Credits @@ -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 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 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 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 +. 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 + Craig Kolb + Graham Stoney + Harlan Stenn + Jan Djarv + Larry Wall + Ralf E. Stranzenbach + Scott Grosch + Syd Weinstein + Thomas Neumann + Wayne Davison + +If I forgot your name, please let me know, and accept my apologies (not +necessarily in that order ;-). + +Finally, thank you Shigeya Suzuki for hosting the +dist-users mailing list. Send mail to majordomo@foretune.co.jp to subscribe. + + Raphael Manfredi + 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 + Graham Stoney + Ilya Zakharevich + Jarkko Hietaniemi + Joseph H Buehler + Keith Walker + Scott Presnell + Wayne Davison + +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 + Chip Salzenberg + +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 + Grenoble, France, February 1997 + -- cgit v1.2.3