Re: [Barry-devel] Happy Barry Birthday
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From: Luca Di S. <luc...@ti...> - 2009-10-21 12:02:52
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On mar, 2009-10-20 at 16:46 -0400, Chris Frey wrote: Happy Birthday! Long life to Barry! bye, Luca > Hi list, > > A little trivia for everyone... Barry is 4 years old today. If you take > a peek at the ChangeLog file in the source tree, you'll notice that on > this day in 2005, the project was started. It began in a private tree, > a NetDirect project from the start, and it arrived at SourceForge a > little later, about November that same year. > > The temporary name for the project, until we could think of something > proper, was "syncberry", but since it had "berry" in the name, we > thought it was too close to BlackBerry to use as a real name. > > Since that day, according to the current git repo, there have been a total > of 1582 commits. > > Using wc -l, there are 53,983 lines of code. (*.h, *.c, *.cc, *.sh) > > There are 32 total contributors listed in AUTHORS. > > According to SourceForge's download statistics, there have been 140,177 file > downloads, totalling 56.1 GB. > > Barry is now in 4 distros that I know of: Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and Mandriva. > It targets 32bit and 64bit systems, and is portable to the BSDs. > > Thanks to everyone who helped make Barry what it is today, including > code contributors, testers, binary package volunteers. And especially > NetDirect: Barry wouldn't be here without them. Enjoy the virtual > birthday cake, and look forward to more features coming in the next > few months. :-) > > - Chris > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > Barry-devel mailing list > Bar...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel |