On 11/23/2011 10:46 AM, Nathan Ridge wrote:
I am sure it is pretty common for users of boost to use google to search for documentation/tutorials on their favorite library in boost. I have found that the top hits are typically not the latest documents. For example I just searched for boost,foreach and a documentation from 1.35 was the first hit. It would be great if there is a way to tell google to update their links to the latest version. Anyone knows whether this is possible, and how to make it happen?
This problem probably applies to any search engine but I can only comment on google search.
I have a related gripe: suppose I search google for "boost fusion". The first result is:
Chapter 1. Fusion 2.1 - Boost 1.48.0 www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/libs/fusion/
So far, so good! But when I click on it, the address in my address bar is:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/fusion/doc/html/index.html
When I then navigate to some page in the documentation, and copy the link to post it somewhere (perhaps in a stackoverflow answer or a forum post), the link is to the 1.48 docs, not the latest docs. When someone then looks at the answer/post two years later and clicks on the link, they are looking at a very outdated Boost version!
I would argue that in this case the behavior is actually good. Your SO question and answer is dated and hence fits having a dated link. Otherwise the link might point to non-existent documentation or totally changed behavior on the referred page and hence invalidating your answer. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail