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Re: gcc2 archives (was re: config.guess and Linux/GNU)
- To: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Subject: Re: gcc2 archives (was re: config.guess and Linux/GNU)
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:42:59 -0400
- Cc: jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200006181937.MAA05769@kankakee.wrs.com>
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 12:37:00PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 17 Jun 00 12:56:25 EDT
> > From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
>
> > However, we can certainly make the last gcc2 CVS tree available, if
> > it would be useful. I have it on my machine.
>
> I would love to see a pointer to the old cvs archives on the gcc
> website, but in such a way as to not be confusing to a new user trying
> to find gcc. If I'm lucky, the old cvs stuff was built up directly
> from the old rcs files.
I'm sure MRS knows this, but just so everybody else is on the same page -- the
CVS/RCS archives only go back a year or so. For at least the first 6-8 years
no source code control system at all was used (other than an admonition to set
the emacs variables kept-old-versions and kept-new-versions to over 100). Thus
for people interested in really old software archaeology, you would have to
look for caches of old releases (or private archives -- for example, I would
check GCC into SCCS and ODE source code control systems at Data General and OSF
respectively).
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