From 2e878a38dd7144c84b665019b1085ea38ebe56d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=C8=98tefan=20Talpalaru?= Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 21:50:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] document the forking history --- README.md | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index da6d966..0f0a2cc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,17 @@ # libbacktrace + A C library that may be linked into a C/C++ program to produce symbolic backtraces -Initially written by Ian Lance Taylor . +Initially written by Ian Lance Taylor , then [forked by Rust +developers](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/libbacktrace/tree/rust-snapshot-2018-05-22) +in May 2018 and forked again by Nim developers in February 2020 (because the +Rust people moved on to their own implementation). Ian started writing [his own +version of macOS +support](https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace/commit/4e548e735f9502978ad70d59d6ebe18f55650ee9), +a couple of days before this last fork was made. If that's successful, we'll be +happy to go back to using upstream. + +## Original README This is version 1.0. It is likely that this will always be version 1.0.