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2014 was very much that era, I'd accept this excuse maybe for 2007
by majou 5y ago
2014 was very much that era, I'd accept this excuse maybe for 2007
- kibwen 5y agoThe line wasn't written in 2014, that's just the earliest that the history goes back. Presumably it's no newer than the early 2000s.
- Gigachad 5y agoConsidering that initial commit contains 400k lines, I would say there is a very long history before git was used.
- danudey 5y agoI remember before 2007 seeing people using eval and thinking "what on earth is wrong with you?" I'd accept this for maybe pre-2000, but people should really know better.
- leejo 5y agoThe comment in the code slightly above says: this doesn't work in perl 5.6.2! grrrr So this code is at least 20 years old, and probably pre-2000.
- sebcat 5y agohttps://exiftool.org/ancient_history.html https://exiftool.org/ancient_history.html Sept. 26, 2008 - Version 7.44 - Added read support for DjVu images There were probably enough systems running perl 5.6.2 around 2008 to cause bug reports, or the code was migrated from an older piece of code and added to ExifTool. It was not uncommon to manually ./configure, make, make install tarballs locally in those days, especially not on systems like Slackware so I can see it being possible to have old packages installed that were not automagically updated.