_______________________________________ De: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] En nombre de Vladimir Prus [ghost@cs.msu.su] Enviado el: sábado, 04 de abril de 2009 21:46 Para: boost@lists.boost.org Asunto: [boost] Shorter link to getting started

I would like to modify the configure script to mention getting started, so that user knows where to look for information, but unfortunately, the current URL is a bit long:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

It is 77 characters, so it does not leave any space for any other text. Can the website administrators arrange for some shorter redirect to be available? Say

http://www.boost.org/getting_started/unix-variants.html

I second this. Furthermore, there are aditional problems with redirections exposing the current release number, as explained at http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2008/10/143160.php Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

Vladimir Prus wrote:

I would like to modify the configure script to mention getting started, so that user knows where to look for information, but unfortunately, the current URL is a bit long:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

It is 77 characters, so it does not leave any space for any other text. Can the website administrators arrange for some shorter redirect to be available? Say

http://www.boost.org/getting_started/unix-variants.html

?

There's already a shorter link available since there's a shorter link for all release docs that doesn't have the version number: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/more/getting_started/unix-variants.htm... But I guess that's still long :-( You can add an appropriate redirect yourself though. Just change either <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/website/public_html/beta/.htaccess>, or <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/website/public_html/beta/doc/.htaccess> (with the usual beta testing, then merge to live). The former if you want a root looking link. And the latter if you want a "/doc/*" link. Perhaps: http://www.boost.org/getting_started_unix.html And http://www.boost.org/getting_starget_windows.html ?? Note, you should redirect to the "/doc/libs/release/..." so that it repoints to the current docs. Although there's a long standing repquest by Dave to be able to update the getting started without having to update the release ZIPs. -- -- 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