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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- Cc: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, "bonzini\ at gnu dot org" <bonzini at gnu dot org>, "dave dot korn dot cygwin\ at googlemail dot com" <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>, "gcc\ at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "law\ at redhat dot com" <law at redhat dot com>, "rguenther\ at suse dot de" <rguenther at suse dot de>, "stevenb dot gcc\ at gmail dot com" <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0700
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:53:59PM -0700, NightStrike wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
>> > one. RMS wanted to have gcc use machines administered by the FSF; we
>> > pushed back. gcc.gnu.org is sourceware.org. We did agree that we
>>
>> A little off-topic, but why *is* gcc on sourceware.org?
>
> Because long ago, Cygnus (now part of Red Hat) contributed hosting for the
> egcs project, and it happens to be the same machine. The egcs project
> had a very nice setup, and when egcs became GCC it was kept.
It's also worth noting that at the time the FSF had no serious
alternative. The FSF wasn't providing CVS service for any projects, and
sourceware.org was much more reliable than the FSF servers at the time.
Nowadays we would consider using savannah.
Ian