Re: [boost] Re: 1.32 documentation issue

From: JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z (joaquin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-02 16:26:38

----- Mensaje original -----
De: Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
Fecha: Martes, Noviembre 2, 2004 9:06 pm
Asunto: Re: [boost] Re: 1.32 documentation issue

> At 12:39 PM 11/2/2004, Robert Ramey wrote:
> 
> >Actually after poking around in other pages - specifically the 
> spirit >documentation I find that its not uncommon for links to 
> point to
> >www.boost.org rather than have a relative path that would keep 
> the 
> session
> >in the same documentation tree.  This would seem to conflict 
> with the 
> idea
> >that boost should be usable as a CDROM distribution.
> >
> >I don't know if there's time for this but the inspect should be 
> enhanced 
> to
> >check for this and all the offending global links should be 
> altered to
> >relative ones.
> 
> We tried to do that at one time, but gave up because it is a bit 
> tricky. 
> Some absolute www.boost.org references are correct, such as to the 
> LICENSE 
> file, so it isn't as simple as just searching for "www.boost.org/" 
> in .htm? 
> files.
> 
> I've just taken a look (using grep) at the CVS RC (not the 
> tarball) and it 
> seems that while the problem does happen, particularly in spirit 
> and graph 
> libraries, it isn't really horrible.
> 
> I'd say we can wait until after the release ships, then see if we 
> can come 
> up with some logic that doesn't generate a lot of false positives.
> 

Automatic detection aside, would it be possible to fix the
offending links manually before release? Maybe it's not that
straightforward, if those links are generated from BoostBook
source.

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo