Re: Pre vcs versions of zsh

[Stephane Chazelas <stephane@chazelas.org>]

2021-04-16 16:03:42 +0100, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
> Besides the links I've already given (https://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/zsh/old/ and
> https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-2.1/source/ap/zsh/zsh-2.4.306.tar.gz)
> the earlier ones posted to usenet can be found raw (as usenet
> articles with shar archives inside) at:
> 
> 1.0:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/utzoo/files/news133f1.tar.bz2
> in:
> 
> b194/alt/sources/2805:Subject: zsh - a ksh/tcsh-like shell (part 1 of 8)
> b194/alt/sources/2806:Subject: zsh - ksh/tcsh-like shell (part 2 of 8)
> b194/alt/sources/2807:Subject: zsh - a ksh/tcsh-like shell (part 3 of 8)
> b194/alt/sources/2808:Subject: zsh - ksh/tcsh-like shell (part 4 of 8)
> b194/alt/sources/2809:Subject: zsh - ksh/tcsh-like shell (part 5 of 8)
> b194/alt/sources/2810:Subject: zsh - ksh/tcsh-like shell (part 6 of 8)
> b194/alt/sources/2811:Subject: zsh - ksh/tcsh-like shell (part 7 of 8)
> b194/alt/sources/2812:Subject: zsh - ksh/tcsh-like shell (part 8 of 8)
> 
> 2.0 to 2.00.03:
> 
> http://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/misc/archive/comp.sources.misc/volume18/zsh2.00/
[...]

There's also:

http://grumbeer.dyndns.org/ftp/cdroms/infomagic/9508/infomagic9508_disc2/system/Shells/zsh-2.6-beta9.tar.gz

So looking at the changelogs, we're missing:

2.3

a bunch of 2.4.x (I see some references to 2.4.291 in 2.4.306
for instance, it's possible those 291, 306 are internal and that
not many  were released in the wild, they look like some beta
run up to 2.5 like 2.6-beta were run ups to 3.0)

FAQ in there says:

  The next production version will be 2.5 (2.4 will not be released, so
  as to minimise confusion over version numbers).  It is expected that
  no new features will be added before the release.

Which didn't stop slackware from shipping that 2.4.306.

2.5.01
2.5.02
2.6-beta{1..8}

(I started using zsh around the late 2.6 betas myself)

-- 
Stephane