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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] installed documentation bug and suggestions.
From: Mostafa (mostafa_working_away_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-14 01:30:18


On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:47:31 -0800, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Mostafa wrote:
>> I should have been more clear. This is for boost version 1.42
>>
>>> Mostafa wrote:
>>>> I've had bad internet connection so I had to resort to using the
>>>> installed boost docs and noticed some bugs.
>>>>
>>>> 1) /share/doc/boost/libs/serialization/doc/index.html has broken
>>>> links in the left frame.
>>>
>>> Which links specifically?
>>
>> Case Studies
>> Other Classes
>>
>> By broken, I mean that they're not identified as links in the
>> browser. I guess that's because they're missing the anchor tag. Now
>> that I have internet connection back, I see that on the website
>> they're expandable tree nodes, not links. That's not how they're
>> rendered offline, that is the whole left pane is not renedered as a
>> tree structure, it's rendered flat with the descendant nodes missing,
>> is that expected? BTW, the browser I'm using is: Firefox 3.5.7
>>
>
> Hmmm - I'm not seeing this on my local version.
>
> BTW - I've recently checked in improvements in the documentation.
> They don't touch on the points you mention, but they do include
> more correct information and also two more case studies. This
> has been a work in progress for 8 years.
>
> Robert Ramey
>

It must be a packaging issue also. I just checked the downloaded boost
source and it doesn't have this issue. Sorry for the false alarm.


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