Re: question about historical GNU System releases

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:55:59PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:

> 2. Was the GNU System release v0.2 in 1997 the last release or have
> there been any others since?

There have been two snapshots created by Alfred, but no official
release.

> 3. (assuming the answer to #2 is no) The g-s-d archive doesn't go back
> to 1997. Does anyone know what happened in 1997 that derailed the
> release schedule and caused the 10 year gap since the last release?

Besically, nobody cared. There is Debian GNU/Hurd, and there is a lot of
GNU software, but nobody was interested in creating official releases of
the GNU system as a whole.

Then Alfred came along, initiating a new GNU packaging effort a few
years ago -- resulting in this mailing list, a build system, and some
snapshots of GNU using this build system.

-antrik-