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Re: Public History of the GCC project
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: mdupont777 at yahoo dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:57:20 -0600
- Subject: Re: Public History of the GCC project
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <10206261134.AA10187@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>, Richard Kenner writes:
> A real shame that the older mails got lost,
> I wonder if the FSF would be willing to make the older archives
> available?
>
> It didn't "get lost", it's that it's not public. Making it public
> would require the permission of all the contributors to the mailing
> list, something that's very impractical to obtain.
>
> I strongly doubt the FSF even *has* an archive of the messages. If
> *anybody* does, it would be Cygnus, but I'm not even sure they do.
Red Hat (via the acquisition of Cygnus) has the old gcc2 list archives,
but given that gcc2 was a private list, we're not planning to make those
archives public.
jeff