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