Re: Repository for historical SED versions

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:16 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jim and all,
>
> In recent bug#30794 you listed several older sed versions
> (including some that are not available on ftp.gnu.org or cvs/git).
>
> This prompted me to try to collect past versions and put them
> into one git repository. I added all the versions I found here:
>
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed/sed-history.git/
>
> This is a separate git repository that does not affect sed's
> main repository in any way.
>
> You listed some versions which I couldn't find (4.0{a,e}) -
> if you have the source code for them - can you share it with me?
> I'll add them to the repository.

Hi Assaf,
I suspect I found them here: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sed/

Thanks for doing that!

> I'm also missing 2.04 and any version prior to 1.14 -
> if anyone has them please share.
>
> comments welcomed,
>  - assaf
>
> P.S.
> To use this repository:
>
> Anonymous git access:
>   git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/sed/sed-history.git
>
> Read/Write Access:
>   git clone <user>@git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/sed/sed-history.git
>
> Web Access:
>   http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/sed/sed-history.git
>   http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=sed/sed-history.git
>
> When using this repository, please be aware that it might
> be rewritten during the next couple of days (requiring --force etc.)
>