[Adium-devl] The History of Adium

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>
>> Adium 1.6.1 - last release of closed-source Adium.
>
> Wrong. Those releases were open source too. There was a tarball posted
> on the old site. I don't recall there being a CVS server anywhere --
> Adam would just merge in changes by hand.

Yup. I've still got the Adium 1.6.5.05 tarball.

Version 1.6.2c (10/19/02) was the last official release of the  
original Adium.  Adam Iser at that time began preparing to switch to a  
team approach, with central version control, rather than a one-man  
show accepting patches.  This preparation would lead to the decision  
to rewrite Adium almost entirely from scratch.

Version 1.6.4 was the first release I managed.  It was made up of  
various patches (mostly hacky as hell) from various forum members,  
notably in my mind David Clark, Ian Krieg, and myself, though I'm  
confident I'm forgetting people who were major players (such as it  
was) at that stage of the game.  We were eager to start developing on  
what would become Adium X and then later again Adium and decided to  
keep working on the old codebase in the meantime. Version 1.6.4 was  
followed by 1.6.4.03.  The Version History file helpfully says:

> Version 1.6.4.01-02
> * don't exist for some reason. Odd.

Version 1.6.4.08.01b got the Worst Version Naming Ever award.

Version 1.6.5.05 was the last "Adium Community" release.

-Evan