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Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(installer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(installer) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(Python_dis
by yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(installer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(installer) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(Python_distribution) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(Python_distribution) , the installer dates to 1999 and the python distro dates to 2012. So yes, the name is overloaded, but the installer came first, and came first by a lot.
- staplung 2y agoAh, okay. Criticism retracted from RedHat and redirected at (python) Anaconda.
- m4rtink 2y agoAnd 1999 is just how far the Git history (imported from CVS, the project kinda skipped subversion directly to Git) goes. - The first commit is from April 24 1999 and says: "the very start of a gui frontend for anaconda": https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/785d44bf73ccc1d57d771895cc94112a34857809 https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/785d44bf73ccc... This kinda implies that Anaconda was in existence for some time back then & what was tracked in the newflangled change tracking software was the fancy new graphical UI. :) I have not really looked further if perhaps the backend was imported later on or just grew from the GUI - but the same codebase, with continous 27 years of history is what installs the Fedora 42 Beta today. :-)
- m4rtink 2y agoOK, managed to dig up even more Anaconda history, including origins of the name: https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#history https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.ht...
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoInteresting that that says > So the Anaconda code base that we all started with began in 1999 or so which implies that the pre-vcs history is pretty short.