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== Overview == | |||
''from the inkscape manpage by [[BryceHarrington]]'' | |||
The codebase that would become Inkscape began life in 1999 as the program Gill, the GNOME Illustrator application, created by Raph Levien. The stated objective for Gill was to eventually support all of SVG. Raph implemented the PostScript bezier imaging model, including stroking and filling, line cap style, line join style, text, etc. Raph's Gill page is at http://www.levien.com/svg/. Work on Gill appears to have slowed or ceased in 2000. | |||
The next incarnation of the codebase was to become the highly popular program Sodipodi, led by Lauris Kaplinski. The codebase was turned into a powerful illustration program over the course of several year's work, adding several new features, multi-lingual support, porting to Windows and other operating systems, and eliminating dependencies. | |||
Inkscape was formed in 2003 by four active Sodipodi developers, Bryce Harrington, MenTaLguY, Nathan Hurst, and Ted Gould, wanting to take a different direction with the codebase in terms of focus on SVG compliance, interface look-and-feel, and a desire to open development opportunities to more participants. | |||
== Timeline == | == Timeline == | ||
=== | === 1999 === | ||
[http://www.levien.com/svg/ Gill] starts as an effort to implement SVG on the Gnome canvas. | |||
The SodiPodi 0.17 Changelog shows major changes on 1999-09-02. How long before this was it still a seed of an idea and discussions on mailing lists? | |||
=== 2000 === | === 2000 === | ||
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Sodipodi gets a sourceforge page, 0.17 release lists 3 authors. | Sodipodi gets a sourceforge page, 0.17 release lists 3 authors. | ||
=== | === 2003 === | ||
Inkscape forks from SodiPodi. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 05:20, 27 April 2006
Overview
from the inkscape manpage by BryceHarrington
The codebase that would become Inkscape began life in 1999 as the program Gill, the GNOME Illustrator application, created by Raph Levien. The stated objective for Gill was to eventually support all of SVG. Raph implemented the PostScript bezier imaging model, including stroking and filling, line cap style, line join style, text, etc. Raph's Gill page is at http://www.levien.com/svg/. Work on Gill appears to have slowed or ceased in 2000.
The next incarnation of the codebase was to become the highly popular program Sodipodi, led by Lauris Kaplinski. The codebase was turned into a powerful illustration program over the course of several year's work, adding several new features, multi-lingual support, porting to Windows and other operating systems, and eliminating dependencies.
Inkscape was formed in 2003 by four active Sodipodi developers, Bryce Harrington, MenTaLguY, Nathan Hurst, and Ted Gould, wanting to take a different direction with the codebase in terms of focus on SVG compliance, interface look-and-feel, and a desire to open development opportunities to more participants.
Timeline
1999
Gill starts as an effort to implement SVG on the Gnome canvas.
The SodiPodi 0.17 Changelog shows major changes on 1999-09-02. How long before this was it still a seed of an idea and discussions on mailing lists?
2000
Sodipodi gets a sourceforge page, 0.17 release lists 3 authors.
2003
Inkscape forks from SodiPodi.
References
Ted's pages of "about dialogs"
Release History
This is straight off of the sourceforge pages. These raw facts are here to help spur your memory. Please add what you know in a timeline format above.
- Inkscape
- 2005-11-19 0.43
- 2005-08-21 0.42.2
- 2005-07-24 0.42
- 2005-02-08 0.41
- 2004-11-28 0.40
- 2004-10-27 Snapshots
- 2004-07-15 0.39
- 2004-04-08 0.38.1
- 2004-02-10 0.37
- SodiPodi
- 2004-02-10 0.34
- 2003-11-29 0.33
- 2003-06-19 0.32
- 2003-02-21 0.31
- 2003-02-06 0.30
- 2003-01-27 0.29
- 2002-11-24 0.28
- 2002-10-08 0.27
- 2002-09-21 0.26
- 2002-09-10 0.25
- 2001-10-04 0.24.1
- 2001-09-26 0.24
- 2001-05-17 0.23
- 2001-03-09 0.22
- 2001-01-25 0.21
- 2000-10-08 0.20
- 2000-08-18 0.19
- 2000-04-13 0.18.2
- 2000-03-27 0.17-2
- 2000-03-27 0.17