Re: OT Writing an Article about F-Spot

[Nguyen Matthieu <nguyen matthieu gmail com>]

On 05/21/2013 09:22 PM, Sven Utcke wrote:
> > > I'll go ahead with the questions:
> > > 1.) Why and when was F-Spot created ?
> > When is simple enough; the first code repo tag was created on @
> > 2003-11-08 06:52:57 (GMT)
> Although it is of course possible that some of the code might have
> existed before, and that this is simply the date some (new?) version
> control paradigm was used.

About that: the webarchive seem to indicate that the first version ever 
of F-spot, v0.0.01, is from august 2004

http://web.archive.org/web/20070113090050/http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/f-spot/0.0/

So having an initial code repo tag in November 2011 is possible, and 
could be the original one...

> > >   Was it the first FOSS photo management application ?
> > No clue, I *VERY* much doubt it.  I'd wager the "first FOSS photo
> > management application" is long forgotten, and was probably circa
> > the 1980s.  This is not a new category of applications.
> Wikipedia claims:
>
>    The first digital camera that was actually marketed commercially was
>    sold in December of 1989 in Japan, the DS-X by Fuji
>
> So before that, and probably for some years after, there would not
> have been much need for a "photo management application".  Even xv
> only dates back to the early 1990s.  And that's an early image viewer
> and sort of rather crude editor, with hardly any decent management
> functionality.
>
> Sven


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