Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:28:50PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote:
> Le vendredi 06 novembre 2009 à 19:43 +0000, Graham Percival a écrit :
> > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:14:27PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote:
> > > I warmly, highly and definitely second doc/v2.xx (first value of xx will
> > > be 14), which is clearer than having stable docs at toplevel or in /web,
> > 
> > I'll agree if you're ok with a doc/stable/ symlink that points to
> > doc/v2.xx/
> 
> I don't understand: this symlink already exists on lilypond.org, and
> I've never requested to remove it.
>
> > > stable docs at toplevel -- think on all users that wait little time or
> > > even sometimes a while before upgrading to the newest stable branch.
> > 
> > I don't follow this statement?
> 
> Do you use bookmarks in your web browser?

Oh, I see.  Keeping it as an immediate forward rather than a
regular symlink.  Ok.

> > I would also like the offline target of the docs to share this
> > directory layout.  (minus the "stable" symlink)
> 
> I don't understand this, this is asking for complication.  IMO the
> directory munging should happen in www_post.py (or one of the modules it
> uses), so it could be applied only for online target.  I don't see the
> point of trying to produce the final structure directory in WWW-1 and
> WWW-2 building stages, as the docs produced in this stage are not very
> usable anyway (think of broken images in splitted HTML docs).

I was talking about fixing this in the new waf buildsystem, if we
switch to it.

Cheers,
- Graham