on Thu Oct 09 2008, joaquin-AT-tid.es wrote:
Hello,
The website PHP is devised in such a way that documentation URLs are automatically rewritten to point to the specific Boost version most recently shipped. For instance, if I type the following in my browser:
http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm
I get the following redirection:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm
This is fine in that it allows us to keep a historic record of documentation across Boost versions. My little complain is that the automatic redirection makes it all too easy to inadvertently use version-specific URLs when referring to Boost docs in external contexts (blogs, forums, etc.) This is in my opinion unfortunate because such URLs are stuck in time and do not reflect the evolution of the library.
It would be nice to have http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm with each versioned page having a link to the "most recent version of this document." -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com