Re: [exim] Historic Source Code

> On 16 Nov 2015, at 10:07, Andrew C Aitchison <andrew@???> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, James R Grinter wrote:
>> I thought I might have first used 0.42, but the earliest I found on a quick search was 0.55 (and I seem to have 1.62 as the first post 1.x version, too) I can't find an online copy of the home directory I would have stored an earlier version in.

This email nudged me to have another dig around. Sure enough, I found 0.42, hidden elsewhere.

-rw------- 1 jrg 1000 545575 Apr 15 1996 src/exim-0.42.tar.gz

The files inside the tar are dated March 1st 1996.

The doc/ChangeLog file lists a number of versions prior to that (25 including 0.42, the earliest referenced being 0.18).

> IIRC the version before 1.62 was 0.something
> - Philip bumped the major number since there was a perception
> that version 0.something was not of release quality :-)

That sounds fairly plausible, though it looks like it could have been on/before 1.60? In 1.62, the ChangeLog references Versions 1.60 and 1.61, but notes that previous entries have been "archived" as of 1.60.

The ChangeLog for 0.57 reveals that earlier entries were also archived before 0.43.

Kate - if you are interested in looking back this far, just drop me an email.