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October 18, 2007

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» Robin Luckey: “The World’s Oldest Source Code Repositories”

Robin Luckey of Ohloh.net gathered information on oldest public source code repositories. Top three are:

  • BRL-CAD, started in April 1983;
  • GNU Emacs, April 1985;
  • GCC, the GNU Complier Collection, November 1988;

Read the article at Ohloh.net: “The World’s Oldest Source Code Repositories”.

by squadette at 4:17 PM under use cases (Commments)
October 7, 2007

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» Tim O’Reilly: Why Congress Needs a Version Control System

Tim O’Reilly, together with Karl Fogel, discussed the idea of version control for U. S. Congress.

It turns out that Tasmania seems to have implemented something similar, as described in article by Timothy Arnold-Moore “XML for legislation drafting, management and Web delivery—How structured document representation facilitates automatic processing”, published in Novemeber 1998 (found via Bex Huff).

We have already covered similar topic back in March: Slashdot: Source Control for Bills in Congress.

by squadette at 8:41 AM under use cases , version control for ordinary users (Commments)