Re: Ok to redirect http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/ to GNOME Library?

[Frederic Peters <fpeters 0d be>]

David Nečas (Yeti) wrote:

> > do you believe a "latest" symlink would
> > be useful ?  As well as a "stable" symlink ?
> 
> A stable or latest alias would be definitely useful, but...

This has been taken care of.


> Let me explain: The conclusion on gtk-doc was that it is not
> feasible to keep the on-line location of everything in
> gtk-doc, instead libraries should advertise their on-line
> reference base URLs (if there is any) and a mechanisms for
> this and for base URL switching/correction have been already
> implemented.
> 
> This would work well with the current state when each
> library has one on-line location (containing the latest
> version).  The new scheme leaves me wondering what to do
> when one just wants to link to GObject (gboolean, whatever)
> documentation.  What is the canonical link?  Is there any?

Okay, I understand your problem now.  Although I don't have a perfect
answer.  Canonical link would be
  http://library.gnome.org/developers/{doc_module}/latest/{whatever}

Current directory layout is the only one making sense if we want to
maintain several versions in library.gnome.org; however we could
probably devise a few mod_rewrite rules to expose other URI schemes,
such as http://library.gnome.org/api/{doc_module}/{whatever}.



        Frederic