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- Stow was originally written by Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>,
- Zanshin Software, Inc.
- Gord Matzigkeit <gord@enci.ucalgary.ca> made some early contributions.
- John Bazik wrote `fastcwd', the Perl subroutine for computing the
- current working directory (later removed in 1.3.3).
- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> wrote the fix to prevent
- stow -D / stow -R removing initially-empty directories (mentioned
- in 1.3.3 section of NEWS).
- Adam Lackorzynski <al10@inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote the fix to prevent
- the generation of wrong links if there are links in the stow directory.
- Stow was maintained by Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org> up to November
- 2007. Guillaume originally imported the source code into the Savannah
- CVS repository on 2001/12/24 with the tag "v1_3_2". This history was
- later imported into git as described below.
- 1.3.3 was the last release of the 1.x series. The CVS history
- contains a few commits after 1.3.3 preparing for a 1.3.4 release which
- was never published (see the "import-cvs" tag in git).
- Between 2007 and 2009, a small team of people collaborated on a
- private in-house project on Stow:
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/stow-devel/2011-11/msg00003.html
- Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson <kahlil@internode.on.net> performed a major
- rewrite in order to implement:
- 1. deferred operations,
- 2. option parsing via Getopt::Long,
- 3. options to support shared files,
- 4. support for multiple operations per invocation,
- 5. default command line arguments via '.stowrc' and '~/.stowrc' files,
- 6. better cooperation between multiple stow directories,
- 7. a test suite (and support code) to ensure that everything still works.
- As these changes required a dramatic reorganisation of the code, very
- little was left untouched, and so Stow's major version number was
- bumped up to 2. Austin Wood <austin.wood@rmit.edu.au> and Chris
- Hoobin <christopher.hoobin@rmit.edu.au> helped clean up the
- documentation for the new 2.x.y series, and created the texi2man
- script.
- Kahlil obtained permission to donate these changes back to GNU. The
- Subversion history from this period is no longer accessible, so the
- breakdown of the individual changes to the source code between 1.3.3
- and the unreleased 2.0.2 version have been lost; however some details
- are still visible in ChangeLog.OLD, which also acknowledges the
- contributions of Geoffrey Giesemann and Emil Mikulc.
- Sometime after this, Troy Will took over maintainership and imported
- the unreleased 2.0.2 code base as the original root commit into
- Savannah git repository.
- On 25th November 2011, Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org> took over
- maintainership. He imported the CVS history into the Savannah git
- repository, grafting it onto the previous root commit imported by
- Troy, and tagged this as v2.0.2:
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/stow-devel/2011-11/msg00001.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/stow-devel/2011-11/msg00002.html
- refactored the backend code into new Stow.pm and Stow/Util.pm modules
- providing an OO interface, tightened up the test suite, added support
- for ignore lists, `make test', and distribution via CPAN, and cleaned
- up numerous other minor issues.
- These changes were included in 2.1.0, which was the first official
- release since 1.3.3 in 2002.
- Stow is currently maintained by Adam Spiers.
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