On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 6:42 AM Omid Mo'menzadeh <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello all.
> I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this, but I'll give it a
> shot here, and see where I should report this.
> The problem seems to be the website's hosting, which appears to be
> provided by Google, which blocks access from certain countries in
> accordance with US law (with the error message "403. That’s an error. Your
> client does not have permission to get URL / from this server. That’s all
> we know."). This would not surprise me if LilyPond was not a GNU project,
> but it's a bit off at the moment, to say the least.
> What I would want to know if this is something the team cares about, and
> where I should discuss this.
> Thanks,
> Omid Momenzadeh
>
I could  be mistaken -- I often am -- but...

I suspect it's merely that the site is designed to construct search queries
using Google as the default search engine -- along with Google's option to
limit the search to a particular site. This saves the maintainers from
having to install a search engine and keep it updated.

(One other negative consequence of this setup is that it randomly chooses
the version of documentation -- e.g. If I am on a .../doc/v2.20/... page
and search for a term, it will happily offer up a match from
.../doc/v2.22/..., .../doc/2.18/... or whatever else it finds.)

Reply via email to