On 18/03/2013, at 2:02 PM, Luke Daley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 17/03/2013, at 19:28, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 18/03/2013, at 1:19 PM, Luke Daley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> At the moment we don't have this. We have URLs for the current, RC and >>> nightly for whatever they are at the time. >>> >>> It might make sense to be able to dole out URLs for each release. >>> >>> gradle.org/version/1.5 >>> gradle.org/version/1.5-rc-2 >>> gradle.org/version/1.5-SNAPSHOT (or similar) >>> >>> Or something like that. >>> >>> I'd like to make this change. First place to start using them would be the >>> release announcements. >> >> It's not really clear to me what problem you're aiming to solve here. Why do >> we want this? (I'm sure there's a good reason, I just don't know what it is). > > I'm thinking about a user who is using an old version of Gradle. All of our > announcements use symbolic version numbers, which don't work over time. If > the user hits an announcement via google when searching for an old version, > the links won't work. Well, they work, but they no longer point to the info > the user is looking for. Ok. We used to hand out version links. We switched to handing out symbolic links so that when people google for stuff they end up on the most recent docs, rather than out-of-date docs. When people google, they should end up at the docs for the version they are using, which sometimes (mostly?) isn't the version for which the feature/bug fix/whatever was implemented and announced and sometimes (mostly?) isn't the most recent version either. As in, neither version-specific or symbolic links really work that well, I think. Given our backwards compatibility story, I'd be tempted to stick with the symbolic links. -- Adam Murdoch Gradle Co-founder http://www.gradle.org VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting http://www.gradleware.com Join us at the Gradle Summit 2013, June 13th and 14th in Santa Clara, CA: http://www.gradlesummit.com
