Re: old install to a different folder

[Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 10:12 AM Tobias Burnus <tobias@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> On 11.11.22 09:50, Martin Liška wrote:
> > I do support the Richi's idea about using a new URL for the new Sphinx documentation
> > while keeping the older Texinfo documentation under /onlinedocs and /install
>
> If we do so and those become then static files: Can we put some
> disclaimer at the top of all HTML files under /install/ and under
> /onlinedocs/<previous mainline>/ that those are legacy files and the new
> documentation can be found under <URL> (not a deep link but directly to
> the install pages or the new overview page about the Sphinx docs).
>
> I think we really need such a hint – otherwise it is more confusing than
> helpful! Additionally, we should add a "news" entry to the mainpage
> pointing out that it changed and linking to the new Sphinx doc.

Note I think we can "remove" the install/ and onlinedocs/ _landing_ pages
(index.html) but we should keep the actual content pages so old links keep
working.  We can also replace the landing pages with a pointer to the new
documentation (or plain re-direct to that!).

Richard.

> Tobias
>
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