Re: [boost] [Website] Navigation and discoverability

Subject: Re: [boost] [Website] Navigation and discoverability
From: joaquin_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-11-11 02:07:05

Beman Dawes escribió:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:23 PM, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   
>> 2. Many files have version numbers in their URLs, and there doesn't seem
>>   to be any way to link to "whatever the latest is."  Also, once we
>>   have that shouldn't we try to encourage search engines to prioritize
>>   that URL as opposed to any of the many near-duplicates (not that I
>>   know how)?
>>     
>
> Hum... There are at least some cases where "whatever the latest is."
> works. For example, www.boost.org/libs/filesystem does forward to the
> latest version's docs.
>   

Yep, but the problem is that it's a *redirect*, which ends up exposing 
version-labeled URLs.
This is not ideal, as discussed in

http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2008/10/143160.php

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo