Hi,

I don't know if this will get done, but is it possible for future releases of 
CMake to change the name on the website for the documentation? For example, if 
you just looked at the URL:

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html

and you didn't look at the header (which happens a lot if you come to this via 
Google or something and jump directly to it), you would assume the function 
documented there would work for 2.8.*. 

But, that certainly isn't true. We've hit a lot of things that exist in 2.8.4 
or .5 and not 2.8.3. To make things more complicated, on the HPC sites we run 
on, we have versions 2.8.3 (some full release, other's RC's), 2.8.4, 2.8.5, and 
2.8.6. So the stuff we write on one machine doesn't always work on the rest 
because we unknowingly use a function that doesn't exist in previous versions.

Can the URL be changed to something like:

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-7docs.html

and the previous versions kept up at least for a little while? Maybe have 3 
versions on the site at a time, appropriately named, so it isn't as confusing 
(and frustrating) to keep running into missing features?

Anybody else come across this problem, or are we just not good at paying 
attention? 

Thanks!

Tim
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