From 7c662d22a8f7d2e6ad6532014f2ecc1769de16fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben McGinnes Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 01:03:12 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Subsectioned history * Split the main parts down into subsections. * Still need to cull the incorrect stuff towards the end and add more recent changes. --- lang/python/docs/Short_History.org | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/lang/python/docs/Short_History.org b/lang/python/docs/Short_History.org index 11a87c67..2295499c 100644 --- a/lang/python/docs/Short_History.org +++ b/lang/python/docs/Short_History.org @@ -20,12 +20,22 @@ return to the source. This is a short explanation of that journey. ensuring it worked he stopped supporting it, though he left his work available on his Gopher site. +** Keeping the flame alive + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: keeping-the-flame-alive + :END: + A couple of years later the project was picked up by Igor Belyi and actively developed and maintained by him from 2004 to 2008. Igor's whereabouts at the time of this document's creation are unknown, but the current authors do hope he is well. We're assuming (or hoping) that life did what life does and made continuing untenable. +** Passing the torch + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: passing-the-torch + :END: + In 2014 Martin Albrecht wanted to patch a bug in the PyME code and discovered the absence of Igor. Following a discussion on the PyME mailing list he became the new maintainer for PyME, releasing @@ -33,6 +43,11 @@ return to the source. This is a short explanation of that journey. the original PyME release in Python 2.6 and 2.7 (available via PyPI). +** Coming full circle + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: ouroboros + :END: + In 2015 Ben McGinnes approached Martin about a Python 3 version, while investigating how complex a task this would be the task ended up being completed. A subsequent discussion with Werner Koch led to