On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 8:14 AM Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > currently the automake website only hosts one manual version -- the latest. > when working with older code bases, especially when trying to update them > to newer versions, it can be helpful to have the older manual available to > quickly refer to. can we do this for automake ? i'm thinking of just the > major series (1.11, 1.12, etc...), not the patchlevel (1.16.1, 1.16.2). > > this is pretty common with other projects that have major releases and are > heavily developer oriented. for example: > * autoconf > https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-<VER>/ > * gcc > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ > * binutils > https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-<VER>/ > > the autoconf style should be pretty easy to replicate since it's using the > same infrastructure as automake: > https://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/autoconf/autoconf/manual/
Makes sense.
