Re: lilypond manual intro

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 12:30:44AM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Probably for the same reason I didn't: when we go to the web site and
> > simply click the obvious links, the browser shows the version-dependent
> > url.
> >
> > It is surely possible to make mod_rewrite not change the visible url, or
> > otherwise arrange for the version-independent url to be shown, if
> > there's a will for that to be the case ...
> 
> That sounds very interesting!

I'm not certain that's a good idea, since it opens the door to
dead links.
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/accidentals-and-key-signatures
is a valid link and will remain visible for the next 10 years
(barring truly unfortunate accidents)
http://lilypond.org/doc/stable/Documentation/learning/accidentals-and-key-signatures
will only remain visible as long as we do not change the structure
of the Learning manual.

For the sake of people looking up emails in mailing list archives,
I would prefer to keep the redirect rather than mod_rewrite.  It
might be good to mention
http://lilypond.org/stable
somewhere (in the CG?), but only with a caution that only that
link can be safely used (i.e. no subdirectories or exact
filenames).

- Graham