Re: [Boost-docs] Can we have *lastest* directory for boost documentation?

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Can we have *lastest* directory for boost documentation?
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-04-21 15:47:50

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 10:04 AM Zongren Zhang via Boost-docs <
boost-docs_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I am glad that boost.org shows a friendly popup message when I am reading
> an older version of documentaiton.
>
> >  This is the documentation for an old version of Boost. Click here to
> view this page for the latest version.
>
>
> Most of the time I visit boost.org website directed by search engines,
> and none of them will give me the latest version. Sometimes I noticed the
> popup message, but if I didn't, I was confused for a long time.
>
> Why don't we create a symbolic named *lastest* to the directory
> corresponding to latest version? For example,
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_66_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html
>
> can be reached by,
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/boost_asio.html
>
> I think this will produce better search egine results in the long run.
>

There's already a
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/boost_asio.html
<http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/boost_asio.html> link, that
redirects to the latest release.

Rene.