00001 // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // 00002 // The iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit - Copyright (C) 2001 by the // 00003 // University of Southern California (USC) and the iLab at USC. // 00004 // See http://iLab.usc.edu for information about this project. // 00005 // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // 00006 // Major portions of the iLab Neuromorphic Vision Toolkit are protected // 00007 // under the U.S. patent ``Computation of Intrinsic Perceptual Saliency // 00008 // in Visual Environments, and Applications'' by Christof Koch and // 00009 // Laurent Itti, California Institute of Technology, 2001 (patent // 00010 // pending; filed July 23, 2001, following provisional applications // 00011 // No. 60/274,674 filed March 8, 2001 and 60/288,724 filed May 4, 2001).// 00012 // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // 00013 // This file is part of the iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit. // 00014 // // 00015 // The iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit is free software; you can // 00016 // redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General // 00017 // Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either // 00018 // version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. // 00019 // // 00020 // The iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit is distributed in the hope // 00021 // that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the // 00022 // implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR // 00023 // PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. // 00024 // // 00025 // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License // 00026 // along with the iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit; if not, write // 00027 // to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, // 00028 // Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. // 00029 // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // 00030 // 00031 // Primary maintainer for this file: Laurent Itti <itti@usc.edu> 00032 // $Id: historical-notes.dxy 6359 2006-03-13 01:47:10Z rjpeters $ 00033 // 00034 00035 /*! 00036 00037 \page historical-notes Historical notes 00038 00039 - Back in the old days of CVS, before Subversion, there were a couple 00040 times when major changes prompted us to fork the entire source tree; 00041 so along the way we had src/, src2/, and src3/. Now with Subversion, 00042 things are more flexible and easy to manage and so the old src/ and 00043 src2/ have been relegated to the saliency-archives, while the old 00044 src3/ has been renamed to just plain src/ once more. 00045 00046 - It all began with <B>src/</B> -- not the current src/, but the <A 00047 HREF="http://ilab.usc.edu/cgi-bin/secure/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/saliency-archives/src/"> 00048 now-obsolete original src/</A>. It was active approximately between 00049 1995 (not under version control) and late 2000, with minor 00050 compatibility updates throughout year 2001. When development in the 00051 old src/ began, support for C++ templates in g++ was incomplete, so 00052 the old src/ relied on simulated templates in which scripts were 00053 used to generate instantiations of source files from a generic 00054 source. 00055 00056 - <B>src2/</B> is an obsolete source tree as well. The move from the 00057 old src/ to src2/ mainly involved switching the source tree to use 00058 bonafide C++ templates. <I>NOTE that src2/ has now been moved out of 00059 the main subversion development tree, though it is still available 00060 in the <A 00061 HREF="http://ilab.usc.edu/cgi-bin/secure/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/saliency-archives/src2/"> 00062 saliency archives</A></I> 00063 00064 - <B>src3/</B> was the active source tree at the time of our CVS to 00065 Subversion transition (mid-2005). During 2001, Rob Peters and others 00066 started introducing a number of powerful new components to the 00067 toolkit, which generated sufficient incompatibility to warrant a 00068 move to a new source tree, src3/. In early 2003, some additional 00069 fairly large changes were introduced, but to avoid losing CVS 00070 history once again, we kept the code in src3/ rather than moving to 00071 src4. See \ref src31overview "here" for notes on the changes in 00072 revision 3.1 relative to revision 3.0. <I>NOTE: As of 2005-06-12 00073 src3/ has been renamed back to just src/, now that we have the 00074 capability for cheap renaming within Subversion without losing 00075 revision history information</I>. 00076 00077 */
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