[squeak-dev] Swazoo, a history of contributions

Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Mon Mar 24 23:36:32 UTC 2008


Dear all,

Due to the all this long licensing saga I think you'll be interested on 
a brief history of Swazoo and contributions. This can put a bit more 
light on situation, IMO.

1. Swazoo was born on first Camp Smalltalk in 2000 in San Diego, see 
http://www.swazoo.org/history.html for a feeling of those events and 
what was our goal. See specially a "manifesto". There you'll also see 
names of original authors.

2. It was a merge of Ken Treis's Hydrogen web server and Aida/Web's web 
server, with additional Resource framework influenced a lot with ideas 
from Apache, and a support for virtual websites. That's actually what is 
Swazoo nowadays still.

3. 2000: First port to Dolphin was done by Steve Waring.

4. In April 2002 it was first published on Cincom Public Repository 
(Public Store), from when an exact history of contributions and 
contributors can be tracked.

5. Also an original Swazoo from Camp Smalltalk was published in Public 
Store (cs0.9, published 21.mar02)

6. mar02 SSL support for Swazoo released

7. sep03 Bruce Badger starts developing using Swazoo making his own fork 
for his OpenSkills project (0.9.76-bb01).

8. mar05 first code from Bruce in main branch: HTTPPostDataArray (0.9.96)

9. nov05 Swazoo 1.0 released

10. feb06 a dev branch opened to merge with Bruce branch and on top of 
Sport portability layer

11. may06 Bruce forked Swazoo into Hyper

12. aug07 Swazoo 2.0 released, with Bruce branch merged (before his 
Hyper fork), with a lot of other improvements, specialy speed, streaming 
etc. This one is also ported to Squeak.

13. feb08 Swazoo 2.1 released

I hope this will shed the light to the developments of Swazoo and even 
that I probably missed some events, it can be a good start for anyone 
looking deeper on the current license issue.

Best regards
JAnko



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Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si



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