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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
Cc: libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] Update changes.html with libstdc++ changes
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1504201017210.3004@tuna.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150408111439.GM9755@redhat.com>

On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> The only drawback of this, and some similar cases, is that we now
>> risk referring to older versions on a release branch.
> Yes, I realised that problem when making the change and linking to the
> versions that were current at the time. One option would be to add a
> gcc-4.8 symlink that points to the latest gcc-4.8.x version, but that
> adds more work for the release managers and only has a small benefit.

Agreed.

> Alternatively, since we only tend to have four or five releases from a
> branch, we could just update them manually when we remember to. That's
> only necessary until the branch closes, at which point the latest
> release won't change. It's not a huge problem if the links don't go
> to the latest docs immediately IMHO.

Agreed, and agreed.  Let's just keep an eye on it and (try to)
update when a new release of an existing branch comes out.

Gerald

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-20  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-06 16:41 Jonathan Wakely
2015-04-08  6:56 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2015-04-08 11:06 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2015-04-08 11:14   ` Jonathan Wakely
2015-04-20  8:18     ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]

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