Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-17 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:10:36AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > I agree with that and plan to do so next week, once the server hosting > > my GCC trees is online again. > > Before you go ahead with that, please check with overseers@; they > (Frank

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:10:36AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Mike Stump wrote: > > :-( I think we should remove all traces of any search that doesn't work. > > I agree with that and plan to do so next week, once the server hosting > my GCC trees is online again. Before

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-17 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Mike Stump wrote: > :-( I think we should remove all traces of any search that doesn't work. I agree with that and plan to do so next week, once the server hosting my GCC trees is online again. > It has never been any good, so I don't think it is a real loss. This is not fa

Re: [OT] RE: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:20:39PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >> If gmane is free, please supply me a set of the source code to the gmane >> application, so that I can modify it and use it for my own purposes. > http://gmane.org/dist.php > The bit

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-16 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Ranjit Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes it does. If nothing else, the archives are used to > provide canonical URLs for referring to messages. gmane provides that too.

Re: [OT] RE: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:20:39PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > It shows! Your post is based on a misunderstanding of what "free" means in > this context. Perhaps things will be clearer if you read the explanation of > what the FSF means by "free" at In return it shows that you didn't read the me

[OT] RE: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Will L (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: >> Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005 > > I have been following this thread of discussion. I am a little puzzled. It shows! Your post is based on a misunderstanding of what "free" means in this context.

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-15 Thread Will L (sent by Nabble.com)
> Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005 I have been following this thread of discussion. I am a little puzzled. Google and Gmail are both free but they are not "free" software according to the FSF definition. But does it matter? We still use them for w

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-15 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Yes it does. If nothing else, the archives are used to provide canonical URLs for referring to messages. What might not be clear is the need to run a search engine on the sourceware server, especially if it puts an awful load on the server at times and especially when "foo bar site:gcc.gnu.org"

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-15 Thread Ranjit Mathew
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Per Abrahamsen wrote: > > Actually, I wonder if it really makes sense for the GCC project to > spend part of their limited resources on maintaining their own mail > archives, when specialized free as in FSF services like gmane exist? Yes it does. If

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-15 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Olly Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But note that Gmane (http://gmane.org) is run entirely on Free Software, > and doesn't provide any non-Free Software downloads so you could > presumably add a search box for that without political worries. (This > may also be true for some of the other mai

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-14 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
mrs wrote: > I think we should remove all traces of any search that doesn't work. > [...] We'll try to set up mnogosearch again on the machine. Please stand by. - FChE

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-14 Thread Mike Stump
On Dec 14, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Olly Betts wrote: It would be useful to at least note by the search box that it only searches messages sent prior to May 2005. :-( I think we should remove all traces of any search that doesn't work. It doesn't help advanced people, and it doesn't help beginne

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-14 Thread Olly Betts
Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Could we put in a google search box on the archive pages at least, to > > stop confusing people? > > Technically feasible but politically sensitive. Considering > that links on readings.html to sites that provide some software

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:03:12PM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: >On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, DJ Delorie wrote: >>>Summary of the thread: it's known about and may never be fixed, but >>>alternative searchable archives exist (gmane, nabble, probably others >>>like marc and mail-archive too). >> >>Could

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-13 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Summary of the thread: it's known about and may never be fixed, but > > alternative searchable archives exist (gmane, nabble, probably > > others like marc and mail-archive too). > > Could we put in a google search box on the archive pages at least, to > s

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> Summary of the thread: it's known about and may never be fixed, but > alternative searchable archives exist (gmane, nabble, probably > others like marc and mail-archive too). Could we put in a google search box on the archive pages at least, to stop confusing people? http://www.google.com/sear

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-13 Thread Olly Betts
On 2005-12-14, Kaveh R. Ghazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think the mailing list archive search functionality is > working. It's not showing any results after May 2005. Go to: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/ It was noted about a week ago (but ironically you couldn't search for this threa

GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

2005-12-13 Thread Kaveh R. Ghazi
I don't think the mailing list archive search functionality is working. It's not showing any results after May 2005. Go to: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/ Type the name of any frequent contributor, oh say "rth" and sort by "newest". I don't get anything after May 2005. I tried several other lists