Re: [go-nuts] where is an online version of older versions like 1.8 1.6 golang pkg doc ?

Thank you derek, your references just saved me some headache. On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 11:11:39 AM UTC-6 derek wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Ian Lance Taylor > wrote: > > Sounds like a good approach. Or I'm also open to someone writing the > > necessary code for golang.org.

Re: [go-nuts] where is an online version of older versions like 1.8 1.6 golang pkg doc ?

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Sounds like a good approach. Or I'm also open to someone writing the > necessary code for golang.org. I just started this approach simply serving static html files: https://golangdoc.github.io/pkg/1.10beta2/

Re: [go-nuts] where is an online version of older versions like 1.8 1.6 golang pkg doc ?

> > Having an option to link to old docs on golang.org (say > golang.org/pkg/something?tag=1.6.0) will result in people linking to > that option, crawlers storing that option, search engines pointing to > that option, and articles, help information and whatever else online > pinning

Re: [go-nuts] where is an online version of older versions like 1.8 1.6 golang pkg doc ?

Having an option to link to old docs on golang.org (say golang.org/pkg/something?tag=1.6.0) will result in people linking to that option, crawlers storing that option, search engines pointing to that option, and articles, help information and whatever else online pinning themselves to that

Re: [go-nuts] where is an online version of older versions like 1.8 1.6 golang pkg doc ?

I think this old discussion about dropping support for ARMv5 (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17082) makes a point for having docs for older Go versions. It's not always a matter of laziness, sometimes there's no choice. Yeah, the poor lad inheriting a legacy system may and probably will

Re: [go-nuts] where is an online version of older versions like 1.8 1.6 golang pkg doc ?

I think this would further encourage people to be lazy and not upgrade to newer Go versions. This always leads to problems, especially when things like tooling is involved, and especially when the debugger side of Go improved so much between versions. I always liked the fact that Go only shows

Re: [go-nuts] where is an online version of older versions like 1.8 1.6 golang pkg doc ?

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:49 AM, derek wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>> Like for Nodejs, and Python and many other language has permanent >>> archived docs for olders versions: >>> >>>

Re: [go-nuts] where is an online version of older versions like 1.8 1.6 golang pkg doc ?

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> Like for Nodejs, and Python and many other language has permanent >> archived docs for olders versions: >> >> https://nodejs.org/docs/v8.4.0/api/http2.html is permanent URL for >> nodejs v8.4.0 >> >>

Re: [go-nuts] where is an online version of older versions like 1.8 1.6 golang pkg doc ?

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:32 PM, derek wrote: > like for 1.8 1.6 > > for archeology and other reasons, I am researching a in-house software > written in Golang1.6 > want an online version of golang1.6 doc? > > https://golang.org/doc/go1.6/pkg/encoding/json/ > >