Re: [boost] Re: Incorrect link on the mailing lists page.

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-30 19:57:59

At 11:18 AM 1/30/2004, Bronek Kozicki wrote:

 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
 >> I did rename some files named index.htm to index.html, because they
 >> posed a particular problem for some web servers and because the
 >> inconsistent naming caused people to make mistakes constructing
 >> links. I then fixed the
 >> resulting broken links in other files, to the best of my knowledge.
 >
 >OK, but what about files named "index.htm" which are still left in boost
 >?
 >
 >boost_1_31_0_rc2/index.htm
 >  (ie. main index file)
 >boost_1_31_0_rc2/libs/compose/index.htm
 >  (there is also index.html in directory libs/compose containing simple
 >redirection to index.htm)
 >boost_1_31_0_rc2/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm
 >boost_1_31_0_rc2/libs/numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm
 >boost_1_31_0_rc2/more/index.htm
 >boost_1_31_0_rc2/tools/regression/index.htm

There were various rationales for leaving those alone. For example, 
libs/filesystem and libs/numeric already have index.html files, and that 
seemed sufficient.

 >Maybe libs/compose/index.html could be copied to:
 >libs/filesystem/doc
 >libs/numeric/ublas/doc
 >more
 >tools/regression
 >
 >And what about main index file ?

Didn't want to lose the history on that, and it doesn't seem to cause any 
server problems.

If you want to suggest fixes and patches, take a look at 
http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs/inspection_report.html. No 
matter how often we reduce the problem count, it soon grows again.

We could be compulsive about trying to clear every problem, but it makes 
better sense to me to go for the high priority problems, and devote the 
rest of our energy to developing libraries.

Thanks,

--Beman