Hi Jeremy:

> The GNU tools are held at:
> 
>         http://opencores.org/ocsvn/openrisc/openrisc/trunk/gnu-src

The gnu-src repository is huge and takes a long time to check out, especially 
under Cygwin. These are the some of the subdirectories:

  bd-elf
  bd-elf-gdb
  binutils-2.18.50
  binutils-2.20.1
  gcc-4.2.2
  gcc-4.5.1
  gdb-6.8
  gdb-7.1
  gdb-7.2
  newlib-1.17.0
  newlib-1.18.0

I don't see why the average developer should download both the old and the new 
versions of GDB, Newlib and GCC every time. Some key components, like the 
or1ksim, must be downloaded separately anyway.

I would remind any new developer that the OpenCores Subversion repositories are 
behind a registration wall
 that wants some personal information from you, probably for marketing 
purposes. There is no anonymous access, so they have full control about who is 
allowed to look at the code inside. If anything happens to the 
foundation/company/whatever behind these servers, there are no public mirrors 
that I know of, so at least the check-in history would probably be lost.

By the way, Github can emulate a Subversion server, so users do not even need 
to learn git, and Subversion repositories can add external references to Github 
repos as if they were normal Subversion repositories, see here:

  https://github.com/blog/966-improved-subversion-client-support

Regards,
  R. Diez
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