Re: [exim] exim.org - searching docs/spec

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Author: Renaud Allard
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To: Magnus Holmgren
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim.org - searching docs/spec


Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> On tisdagen den 18 september 2007, Marcin Krol wrote:
>> I'm not sure this the right place for this proposal, but here it goes:
>>
>> Searching specifically docs only on exim.org is rather inconvenient. The
>> same site hosts this mailing list, which often is not what the user might
>> want to search for when googling.
>
> I've _preliminarily_ (URIs are subject to change!) put the documentation on
> http://docs.exim.org/ as well, i.e.
> http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/ and
> http://exim.org/exim-pdf-current/doc/ both become
> http://docs.exim.org/current/ (and likewise for specific older versions) (but
> it's not indexed by Google ... yet).
>
> Would it perhaps be even better to have only the current documentation on
> docs.exim.org? It strikes me now that instead of having to read the right
> version of the specification, it might have been better (mostly) if the
> specification specified in what version each feature first appeared.
>


The way you have stored them on http://docs.exim.org (and the name
itself) seems great for me. But is there any point to keep docs for
versions lower than 4.00 in the same place, knowing these versions are
not supported anymore?
Also I would probably put the most recent versions on the top. I know
this goes against apache directory indexes, but this would save some
time for many people to not have to scroll till the end to find the
latest version. I always find annoying that you have to "search" for
recent versions.