Re: updated Gnulib web page to use latest GNU boilerplate

[Micah Cowan]

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Eric Blake wrote:
According to Paul Eggert on 10/24/2007 1:22 AM:
> > Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Rather than inlining this text, shouldn't you have used the magic:
> > >
> > > <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
> > 
> > Most likely, yes.  But where's the source to the boilerplate that
> > includes this magic?  I used http://www.gnu.org/boilerplate.html,
> > which has the magic already expanded.  I couldn't find the actual
> > source for that.
>
> Here's an email that went around among GNU developers last month:
> 
> According to Micah Cowan on 9/14/2007 8:23 AM:
>> You can get it on Savannah at
>>
>> http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html?root=www&view=log
>>
>> I just had to track this down myself. I have not seen this mentioned
>> _anywhere_. It really should be mentioned _everywhere_: on the
>> boilerplate page itself ("where to get the latest, raw version"), on the
>> web guidelines pages, which refer and link to boilerplate.html
>> plentifully, but don't tell you where to obtain the version with SSIs
>> intact... :/

Karl Berry then followed up by saying he'd added a comment to the
boilerplate itself, showing where to find the original:

<!-- This is the template document for GNU web pages.  We use -->
<!-- server side includes (#include) for common elements, for -->
<!-- instance, the very first line of the file.  If you're reading -->
<!-- this in its expanded form, you can retrieve the original source,  -->
<!-- with the SSI statements intact, from -->
<!--
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html?root=www&view=log
- -->

He also said he'd update the maintain.texi file at some point, but I
don't see anything at http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html,
which was last updated on October 10 (I've Cc'd Karl).

I'd also like to see it at
http://www.gnu.org/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html, which references
boilerplate.html several times, but doesn't mention how to get the
SSIs-unexpanded version.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/

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