ulnemjuh: Easy Outside

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Easy Outside

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Sometime in late 2001, Adam Megacz released the XWT project as open source software. XWT eventually evolved into the Ibex project as the technology underpinning the project got overhauled and enhanced, but the upheaval would eventually lead to discontent among contributors upset at the extended development period of several years without a stable release. Eventually, in April 2004, core contributor David Crawshaw called for a stable release to avoid a fork, which Adam declined instead encouraging the fork as he felt community pressure was compromising technical decision making.
Vexi 2.0 development focused on integrating these, but they presented problems including incompleteness, severe bugginess, and unreliability under load, making a Vexi 2.0 release look less likely as time went on. There was never an official Vexi 2.0 release.
In 2007 the principal developers of Vexi - now brothers Charles and Michael Goodwin - announced their intentions to break with the 2.0 platform API and overhaul it using the lessons they learnt, refining the Ibex technology stack to replace the problematic parts. This new version, tentatively called Vexi 3.0, arrived at feature completeness in 2009 and is stable.