Public History of the GCC project

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote:

> Dear Sirs,
> I would like to download the entire mail archive of the gcc project
> for indexing and XREFING.
> One thing that I have noticed is that much of the documentation is
> available in the mailling list. The rational and the dicussion of the
> ideas in the gcc happen on the mail.
>
> It would be great to have a concept index that shows all the mails for
> a given function, topic and idea.
>
> The CVS logs are also important for this purpose as well.
>
> If you can help me arrange a download of the archives,
> I would be very grateful.

You *do* know that they're already on the web, right?
Including the CVS logs.

Indexing there might be best, if nothing else because the
cross-reference can be easily shared.  Classic web-indexing is
done on-site by htdig (see <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/search.html>)
and off-site by google, altavista and others.

brgds, H-P