Xapian discuss - Sep 2004 - Happy 5th Birthday Xapian!

Looking back at the CVS tree, the oldest code checkin I can find was on
September 13th 1999, when it was just Richard and me working in an attic
office above the atrium of St John's Innovation Centre (in Cambridge, UK):

http://cvs.xapian.org/xapian/xapian-core/common/database.h?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

This was before BrightStation released the code under the GPL.  At that
point the project was called "Object Muscat", and was being written as
a replacement for the aging Muscat 3.6 system (mostly written in BCPL!)

The CVS comment suggests that we'd been working on the code for a little
before this, so the date probably isn't quite correct.  I doubt it's out
by more than a few weeks though.

Searching Google groups finds a freshmeat release announcement for
"OpenMuscat 0.1.0 - High performance probabalistic search engine
library." on 2000/03/10 - this was probably the first Open Source
release:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=8abeu4%24i68%241%40linux339.dn.net

That's the date of the freshmeat announcement though - the release was
probably a little before that.

Cheers,
    Olly

Olly Betts wrote:
> Looking back at the CVS tree, the oldest code checkin I can find was on
> September 13th 1999, when it was just Richard and me working in an attic
> office above the atrium of St John's Innovation Centre (in Cambridge,
UK):
   Congratulations to all the developers and users -- here's to five 
more years!

Hein

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:04:31PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> Searching Google groups finds a freshmeat release announcement for
> "OpenMuscat 0.1.0 - High performance probabalistic search engine
> library." on 2000/03/10 - this was probably the first Open Source
> release:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=8abeu4%24i68%241%40linux339.dn.net
> 
> That's the date of the freshmeat announcement though - the release was
> probably a little before that.
The first release was 28th January 2000; open.muscat.com existed from
at least 15th December 1999.

(I keep all my email ever :-)

J

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