-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Georg Brandl wrote: > Adam Olsen schrieb: >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Doug Hellmann schrieb: >>> >>>>> Not a single one, no. The URLs *all* changed. There is not a single >>>>> one that's the same. We may be able to do a single rewrite rule for >>>>> most of the module-*.html URLs, but everything else -- and there is >>>>> quite a lot of 'else' in the 2.5-and-earlier docs -- needs a better >>>>> mapping. Feel free to send me that mapping :-) >>>> Perhaps it has already been suggested and rejected for some reason, but >>>> we could include the major/minor version numbers in the URLs. That >>>> would make it easier to rewrite old URLs, and I assume there will be 2.x >>>> and 3.x documentation available online for some period of time? >>>> >>>> docs.python.org/lib/* could redirect to docs.python.org/2.5/lib/* >>> That would be possible, but not sensible IMO -- it doesn't make people >>> update their links, instead keeps links to outdated documentation. >>> >>>> docs.pyhton.org/ (note no *) could redirect to docs.python.org/2.6/ and >>>> include a link to docs.python.org/3.0/ >>> We already have archived versioned docs at http://www.python.org/doc/X.Y. >> Why not use versioned URLs, but with a link at the top of old pages >> saying they're outdated, linking to the new version. Either way they >> should update their links, but this way you don't shoot them in the >> foot to do it. > > If linking to the new version could be done easily, we could as well directly > redirect. The problem is that having that mapping in the first place is hard.
Why would you remove the old docs (ones with 2.5 in the URL)? They still provide value for folks who can't yet move to 2.6 / 3.0; forcibly redirecting a versioned URL to "current" can't possibley be sane. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI5MlR+gerLs4ltQ4RAicWAKC6gxTtxq/CwZXH9SekRs7DD1fFTwCeMyb/ eJqkvkb4zdDGZG8oPvp1GjI= =0Atv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
