CakePHP 1.3: acl_extras plugin - cakephp

All,
As I am still using CakePHP 1.3 I am in need of using the acl_extras plugin for this version of Cake. Does anyone know where I can possibly find one? The one on GitHub https://github.com/markstory/acl_extras is for CakePHP 2.0.
Thanks,

On github nothing gets lost. you just need to switch to the 1.3 branch:
https://github.com/markstory/acl_extras/tree/1.3

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