Daniel James wrote:

On 06/02/2008, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:

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One of the most common errors are broken links caused by the removal of people pages from the boost tree. Perhaps someone could write a script to replace all of these with a link to the web site, where the people pages still exist. Any volunteers?

I'll do this. I've already started on a branch at:

http://svn.boost.org/branches/fix-links

Great! I think the script is working OK, so the release snapshot inspection report should be renewed every night. The script is scheduled to start running at 2AM east coast US time.

I was changing the links to the location on the beta site and was waiting for it to be ready for release. But it'll probably be better to link to the current location and make sure that the redirects work on the beta site for when it's released.

The link checker currently only checks relative links within the boost snapshot tree, and doesn't validate external links. But we really do want forwarding at the old locations to work correctly, because lots of books and other long lasting materials refer to them. Thanks, --Beman

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:

Beman Dawes skrev:

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An inspection report will now be run on the daily release snapshot. See http://beta.boost.org/development/testing.html#Snapshots for the link.

There are far too many errors. We need to start a major effort to clean these up.

I have a general question. The report says that a stylesheet is missing license info:

ptr_container libs/ptr_container/doc/default.css: *L* libs/ptr_container/doc/intro.xml: *C*, *L* libs/ptr_container/doc/ptr_container.xml: *L* libs/ptr_container/test/Jamfile.v2: *C*, *L* libs/ptr_container/test/sequence_point.cpp: *C*, *L*

In the first file it reads:

* :Author: David Goodger :Contact: goodger@users.sourceforge.net :date: $Date: 2005/03/21 00:01:25 $ :version: $Revision: 1.1 $ :copyright: This stylesheet has been placed in the public domain.

Default cascading style sheet for the HTML output of Docutils. */

What am I supposed to write in this file to fix the problem?

License: public domain

?

Supply the string "boostinspect:nolicense" without the quotes somewhere in the file. --Beman

On 06/02/2008, Matias Capeletto <matias.capeletto@gmail.com> wrote:

Boost.BoostBook based docs have this problem because the link is introduced in each page by it. We can fixed them by changing that link in tools/boostbook/xsl/navbar.xsl and asking boost authors to rebuild their docs. I can change it, but I do not know where it will be the people page now. Another option is to directly remove the link to the people page from each doc page, if people wants to see that page they can access it from the boost web site directly.

I sent a patch to do this to the documentation list a few days ago: http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost-docs/2008/02/3449.php Although I forgot to change it to link to the main site instead of the beta one. But that's easy enough to fix. Daniel