On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.ha...@windriver.com>wrote:
> On 11/15/13, 1:54 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: > >> On 11/14/13, 9:58 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote: >> >>> Hm, a day that will live in infamy indeed >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:09 AM, Philip Balister <phi...@balister.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 11/14/2013 08:22 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Happy birthday, Yocto Project! >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> what's a birthday without cake? >>>>> >>>>> http://www.instructables.com/id/Brain-Cake/ >>>>> >>>>> rday >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Berlios suggests bitbake was born on Dec 7, 2004. So in a few weeks we >>>> will celebrate the 9'th birthday of the OpenEmbedded build system. >>>> >>> >> I found a presentation that seems to have a bit more history in it. >> >> OpenEmbedded & BitBake - Denx. >> www.denx.de/wiki/pub/ELDKHistory/.../OpenEmbeddedv1.ppt >> December 2004: OpenEmbedded is split up into the BitBake build system and >> the >> OpenEmbedded metadata. OpenZaurus. OpenEmbedded is the successor to .. >> >> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web& >> cd=6&ved=0CE0QFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denx.de%2Fwiki% >> 2Fpub%2FELDKHistory%2FDocumentationLinks%2FOpenEmbeddedv1.ppt&ei= >> n3eGUseFHKyh4APFs4CgBQ&usg=AFQjCNGZtQsaGso-YaqLYSlOJaJfhDiaug&sig2= >> JzdEhA4q-4bhBDhE1NOxMQ&bvm=bv.56643336,d.dmg >> >> 2001: Sharp introducestheSL-5000 PDA running Linux >> >> 2002: Chris Larson finds out that the SharpROM sucks and starts hacking >> on a >> build system for a customized Linux distribution called "OpenZaurus” >> >> 2002-2003: The OpenZaurus build system is getting stretched (beyond >> belief) by >> adding support for many more packages and target devices >> >> January 2003: Brainstorming towards a new distribution and device >> independent >> build system >> >> February 2003: Holger Schurig creates the OpenEmbedded repository and >> starts >> hacking on the first version >> >> May 2003: Chris Larson adds major functionality to the OpenEmbedded core >> and >> starts converting packages from the OpenZaurus build system >> >> December 2003: Michael Lauer releases OpenZaurus3.3.5, abandons the >> OpenZaurus >> build system, and converts100s of packages to OpenEmbedded >> >> December 2004: OpenEmbedded is split up into the BitBake build system and >> the >> OpenEmbedded metadata >> >> So the magic Dec 7 2004 date is the split of OpenEmbedded into bitbake >> and the >> 'metadata'. the actual work was almost 20 months prior. >> >> The sourceforge openembedded project was registerd 2003-01-21: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openembedded/ >> >> Also I found a repository that appears it may contain the original >> OpenEmbedded.. first commit is: >> >> Author: Chris Larson <clar...@kergoth.com> >> Date: Mon Jun 2 21:19:02 2003 +0000 >> >> Initial repository create >> >> BKrev: 3edbbf46Zm7UJzG9iGisj7ELSsUuZQ >> > > Never thought to look at the Bitbake repository.. first commit: > > commit af645b03b585a9c92dc111188756b8f6badfec5f > Author: Chris Larson <clar...@kergoth.com> > > Date: Fri Feb 21 04:03:45 2003 +0000 > > .oe file parser function > > So I think that Jives with the Approx Feb 2003 timeframe.. and I'd say > the code birthday then would be Feb 21 2003 -- so in 3 months we're looking > at the 12th anniversary of Bitbake/OE. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjCkwYM6wjBQdGx6Umt2cjBETjNsS09CUFNxRUwzVEE has some dates I started to gather years ago, in case it’s at all of use. -- Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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