> > 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. > > 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 -- __ _ _ __ __ __ / _` || ' \ \ \ / http://www.svenutcke.de/ \__, ||_|_|_|/_\_\ http://www.dr-utcke.de/ |___/ Key fingerprint = 6F F8 55 1C F9 E3 A8 F7 09 DF F7 2C 25 0C 54 53 _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list f-spot-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
