17 Jun
2022
17 Jun
'22
1:20 p.m.
It is indeed problematic that the Unix history repository is missing the
Research Editions. At the time I created it, the source code of the
Research Unix Eighth and Ninth Editions wasn't openly available. I'm
now discussing with another member of this list for a pull request to
add them. Incorporating them properly isn't trivial, because various
mappings are needed to establish authorship information and to allow
git-blame to work across snapshots of moved files.
Diomidis - https://www.spinellis.gr/
On 17-Jun-22 2:06, Rob Pike wrote:
Excited as I was to see this history of Unix code in a
single repository:
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
<https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo>
it continues the long-standing tradition of ignoring all the work done
at Bell Labs after v7. I consider v8 v9 v10 to be worth of attention,
even influential, but to hear this list talk about it - or discussions
just about anywhere else - you'd think they never existed.