On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzesl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:54 AM, Markus Neteler <nete...@osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>> > I am not a developer, just something I wondered; why not having one
>> > permanent address for the manual, which always reflects the latest
>> > stable
>> > release, and if needed, from there add links to older versions?
>> > Obviously
>> > not a solution for now, but this would lead, in the future, to more
>> > stable
>> > and permanent rankings for the most up-to-date version.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Perhaps simply this:
>>
>> https://grass.osgeo.org/manuals/
>> https://grass.osgeo.org/manuals/addons
>>
>> I could easily add that in the CMS and make it point to the current
>> stable version.
>
>
> If we can maintain the URL in the long term that would be great.

+1

> BTW, surprised to see "keywords index" as part of the "manuals" page.

It was an attempt to tell the CMSMS to index the manual pages. Seems
not to work.

> Unfortunately the links are broken:
>
> https://grass.osgeo.org/v.hull.html

Internally it is this "user tag" in CMSMS:

print file_get_contents("http://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/manuals/keywords.html";);

which seems to eat the path. Ideas?


> Anyway, the above solution is better if we can have link like:
>
> https://grass.osgeo.org/manuals/v.hull.html
> https://grass.osgeo.org/manuals/v.hull

Yes.

> There is potential conflict of:
>
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/grass7.html
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/grass7
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70
> https://grass.osgeo.org/manuals/grass7.html
> https://grass.osgeo.org/manuals/grass7
>
> but if the command will be `grass7` (or even `grass`) and the version always
> two numbers and the order is not changed to "manuals/grass70", no conflict
> will happen.

Two numbers would always solve it.

Markus
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