Re: [boost] Problem reading source code online

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-02 15:15:30

At 07:16 PM 3/26/2001, David Abrahams wrote:
 >I think you may be able to fix this by making the following changes in
 >RegEdit:
 >
 >HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\<extension>: Content Type = text/plain
 >
 >where <extension> is .hpp, .h, .cpp, etc...
 >
 >**** BUT I THINK MANY PEOPLE WILL HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM ****
 >Therefore, I propose that a script be added to the boost release process
 >which redirects all links to source files so that they point at HTML-ized
 >versions. I would be happy to produce a Python script, if it can be
 >integrated with the release process. I think Beman is away at ACCU, so we
 >may not hear back on this for a while.
 >************************************************************

We could do that, but...

*  The problem seems server related - it was never reported until we moved 
to a new host last January.  Jens understands it better that I do - maybe 
he can comment.

*  Having HTML-ized versions of files increases the site size quite a bit, 
the complexity of updating the site, and adds too the general 
administrative complexity of a site update.  Things I'd rather avoid as 
long as possible.

--Beman