Perl development history in less then 4 minutes

Perl development history in less then 4 minutes. Visualized with gource.

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[fce2]

What options did you give to gource? Trying to do something similar with a private source tree of similar size and history, but the best I can do produces a 45 minute video!

[gugod]

@fce2 Sorry I didn't keep the command to make this specific video. But a trick I use is to set the fps to 15 and then use ffmpeg to re-encode it as a 30 fps video, which cut the time in half.

There are various grouce options that makes it skip dates without commits, or make it time-based instead of commit-based.

[wwwpwndcom]

Gotta love all the kids coming on here not knowing what the fuck it is and still bothering to thumbs down and comment. Seriously people. Youtube isn't just for mindless idiots like yourselves.

[mattkleifgen]

So is the single blue developer for a while Larry Wall?

[psp12345678998765432]

Gotta love gource.

[gnamp]

like ants on an orange

[chess19]

@wwwpwndcom Yeah, cause I hate when people enjoy things for the wrong reasons.

[clifferny1]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, it is mesmerizing.

I keep watching it over and over again, very very nice.

I tried to pause it and following it and ... and ... at 0:39 02/07/1997, well forget it, way too many people.

There is no question, great project, great Language, great community.

[Downfromzero]

@tapp3r close. they're developing the actual interpreter and language. In essence everything that is Perl. Judging by the first date in the video (3-26-1989) this is from Perl 3 and onward to (2-22-2010). Which I'm guessing is both adapting Perl 5 and probably working on the yet to be released, Perl 6. --- As you said it's all the developers/programmers that have probably committed changes to the Perl source.

[Downfromzero]

@mattkleifgen You can see Larry Wall in the very beginning. If you really want to trace this, you're gonna have to get good at pausing.