ArX

ArX

Developer(s)	Walter Landry
Initial release	February 2003
Stable release	2.2.4 / November 16, 2005
Development status	Unmaintained
Operating system	Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Type	Revision control
License	GPL
Website	www.nongnu.org/arx/

ArX is a distributed version control system. ArX began as a fork of GNU arch, and is licensed under the GPL. Since the fork, ArX has been extensively rewritten in C++, with many new features. The project maintainer is Walter Landry.

History

Landry was, for a short time, the maintainer of Arch, and forked ArX when Tom Lord resumed maintainership of Arch and did not accept some of Landry's development directions.^[1][2] The fork was announced in January 2003 and the first code was released in February.^[3][4] For a time ArX shared a mailing list and community with Arch, but Landry founded a new mailing list in August 2003 and the pre-release series became the 1.0 release series in December.^[5][6] The 2.0 series, which was incompatible with Arch, became public in October 2004.^[7]

References

1. Lord, Tom (2003-01-17). "evidence of wlandry's idiocy". arch-users (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-06-18.
2. Lord, Tom (2003-04-06). "Re: arch<->arx: reason for fork". arch-users (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-06-18.
3. Landry, Walter (2003-01-21). "Re: software freedoms and engineering ethics". arch-users (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-06-18.
4. Landry, Walter (2003-02-02). "Arx-1.0pre1". arch-users (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-06-18.
5. Landry, Walter (2003-08-16). "New ArX list". gnu-arch-users (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-06-18.
6. Landry, Walter (2003-12-26). "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/arx-users/2003-12/msg00000.html". Arx-users (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-06-18. External link in |title= (help)
7. Landry, Walter (2004-10-06). "ArX-2.0.0". Arx-users (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-06-18.