Public History of the GCC project

[Thomas Pollinger]

> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 


Maybe CVSSearch II is what you are looking for (at least for the CVS 
part of what you are trying to index): http://cvssearch.sourceforge.net

It does search by wordstemming (e.g. bugfixes will deliver bugfix, 
bugfixes, bugfixing etc..).

I have used it on a medium sized project (however only one major module) 
and it is used by the KDE project as well. The downside is that for a 
larger project, it can take some while to index and it does not have 
incremental indexing as far as I can remember.

-Thomas