I've now updated Hoogle to point at the new links. I still think the old link's should be restored (perhaps as a permanent redirect code?), but at least it doesn't break Hoogle now.
Thanks, Neil On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wall...@cs.york.ac.uk> wrote: >> Too late. We had a stable link, I used it, Google used it, blog posts >> were written that linked to it, I've emailed my wife links to it, I've >> put them in Word documents, I've posted them on internal intranets. >> You can't create a link, put content behind it, then move the content >> - it just breaks the whole web. > > And incidentally, the _ghc_docs_ themselves continue to use these stable > links to library docs, most of which are currently broken. > > All of the following links from documentation for ghc-6.12.1 give a 404 Not > Found. (I do not claim the list is exhaustive.) > > from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/packages.html > section 4.8 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Distribution-Simple.html > section 4.8.8 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Distribution-InstalledPackageInfo.html#%tInstalledPackageInfo > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Distribution-License.html#t:License > > from > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/using-concurrent.html > section 4.12 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurrent.html > > from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/primitives.html > section 7.2 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC-Prim.html > > from > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/syntax-extns.html > section 7.3.10 links to > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/GHC-Exts.html > > from > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/arrow-notation.html > section 7.10 links twice to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Arrow.html > > from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/pragmas.html > section 7.13.1 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Language-Haskell-Extension.html > > from > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/special-ids.html > section 7.15 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC-Prim.html > > from > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/lang-parallel.html > section 7.18.1 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurrent.html > section 7.18.2 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/stm/Control-Concurrent-STM.html > section 7.18.4 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/parallel/Control-Parallel.html > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/parallel/Control-Parallel-Strategies.html > > from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi.html > section 8 incorrectly links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurrent.html > where the real link ought to be > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Foreign.html > > from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi-ghc.html > section 8.2.4.2 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurrent.html > > from > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ghci-windows.html > section 11.2 links to > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/GHC-ConsoleHandler.html > > > Regards, > Malcolm > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
