Joe Buck <joe.b...@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.b...@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
