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For a release-by-release change history, see <http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/change.html>. XML-RPC For C/C++ was created by Eric Kidd in 2000, when XML-RPC was new and vital. Its development was funded in significant part by First Peer, Inc. Eric released the package in January 2001 and set up an extensive project to maintain it. The project used virtually every feature on Sourceforge, had about 8 official developers, and distributed code in various formats. There were mailing lists, trackers, CVS branches, RPMs, and a full PHP-based web site, just to name a few features of the project. Then everything ground to a halt in June 2001, with the disappearance of Eric. We don't know what happened to him, but Google searches in late 2004 indicated he dropped off the face of the web at that time. While people continued to use Xmlrpc-c, and some developed fixes and enhancements and posted them to the Sourceforge trackers, the release remained frozen at 0.9.10. The web site also became frozen in time. In the years that followed the great freeze, XML-RPC became marginalized by more sophisticated alternatives such as SOAP. XML-RPC consequently became rather stable and interest in Xmlrpc-c levelled off. This dark age of Xmlrpc-c lasted until October 2004, when Bryan Henderson set out to find an RPC mechanism to use in one of his projects. Bryan found XML-RPC and then Xmlrpc-c. He decided that the two were almost right for his needs, but he needed some small extensions. On finding out that the project was orphaned, Bryan decided to take it over. Bryan became the Sourceforge project administrator through Sourceforge's abandonned project process, then gathered the patches that had been submitted over the years and made a come-back release called 1.0. Bryan then proceeded to add a lot of features in subsequent releases about every two months. Most of it was code Bryan wrote himself, but significant parts were contributed by others, as you can see in the detailed history below. Among the larger enhancements was a new C++ interface; the old one was a fairly weak wrapper around the C interface and required the user to manage memory and access the underlying C structures; the new one used pure C++ principles with automatic memory management. Bryan also wrote a complete user's manual. Surprisingly, in spite of the wide array of features the project had, documentation wasn't one of them. There was only a smattering of information available on how to use the package. One significant change Bryan made to the project was to strip it down considerably. In order to concentrate the small amount of time Bryan had available for Xmlrpc-c development on actual code and documentation, Bryan had to greatly reduce the amount of bureaucracy involved in administering the project and making releases, and reduce the set of skills required to do it. Bryan made static make files (for GNU Make) to replace the two extra build stages that originally generated make files. Bryan moved away from Libtool and toward simple compiling and linking. Bryan eliminated all pre-built distributions; each of his releases consisted of a single source code tarball, and that tarball was not signed. Bryan removed some redundant sources of information from the package and the web site.