Old beta dates (Was: [vorbis] file(1) magic for Ogg Vorbis)

[Beni Cherniavsky]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Jack Moffitt wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, I wrote (in response to the quotation below):
> > This means that "beta 1" doesn't exist - never went to the public.
>
> No, it did.  And the may date is accurate for the most part.  I believe
> the actual release date was June 17th or something.  Beta2 followed in
> August.  (Beta1 launched at the MP3.com Summit, Beta2 at LinuxWorld in
> San Jose).
>
> jack.
>
Ohh,,.  Now I'm confused.  Why do they have same cvs tag dates, also
confirmed to be same vendor strings?  How is the vendor string in info.c
updated anyway - automatically on a per-day basis or manually sometimes?

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, rillian wrote:

> On Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at 08:14 , Hvard Kvlen wrote:
>
> > I assume that the cvs tags are accurate, here is the dates:
> >
> > cvs tag                                  date
> > decoder_1_0_public_release_candidate_1   20010615
> > release_1_0_beta_4                       20010225
> > release_1_0_beta_3                       20001031
> > release_1_0_beta_2                       20000508
> > public-beta-1                            20000508
>
> Confirmed. These dates match the vendor strings in my copies of the
> release tarballs.
>

I'm more interested in the vendor string (for purpose of file(1) magic
detection of encoder version that is anyway commmented out for regular
users :) than in the life story but it'd interesting to understand too
(I discovered vorbis at beta2, IIRC, and I got some files encoded with
20000508 vendor string).


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at crosswinds.net>
                 (also scben at t2,cben at tx in Technion)

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