annotate thesis/pieces/masqmail-history.tex @ 223:f88853595b7a
reworked section about qmail
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1 \section{History}
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2 %TODO: let oliver prove read it!
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3 %FIXME: add references
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4 %FIXME: where does the name come from: masqdialer (guessed)
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6 The date of the first release (version 0.0.1) is unknown.
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7 The only information available is, that it was packaged for \debian\ at 15\nth\ of September in 1999.
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8 Further releases were made every few weeks or month during 2000, 2001 and 2002.
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9 Development ended in mid-2003 in a hard stop.
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10 The last ordinary release known to me is version 0.2.20, released on 4\nth\ of June in 2003.
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12 During the time of development, Oliver released 53 versions.
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13 That means a new release in less than every 20 days in average!
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15 Mentionable are the four \emph{beta} releases of version 0.1.8 (named with the trailing letters `a' to `d') in winter 2000/2001 and the security-fix 0.1.15.1 in 2002.
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17 One extra release (version 0.2.21) was made by him in November 2005.
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18 This one is only available from the \debian\ pool.
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19 Comparing it to version 0.2.20 shows, that no source code was altered.
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20 Only building documents (like Makefiles) and \debian\ packageing documents were changed.
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21 That leeds to the assumption that this last release was specificly created for the needs of \debian---to fix some errors in the package.
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23 In May 2000 the minor version number increased to `1'.
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24 Nothing special is mentioned in the documentation about that.
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25 When it increased again to start the 0.2.x releases, Oliver titled them as the ``development branch'' of \masqmail.
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26 At that second time, he started developing the 0.2.x ``development branch'', continuing to work on the 0.1.x series.
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27 His parallel work on both branches lasted for four month, and one additional last release, numbered 0.1.17, one more year later.
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