Eric Blake wrote: > Having just released m4-1.4.14, I noticed that gnu-web-doc-update is > currently hardcoded to put the updated manual directly in $pkg/manual. > But it seems like it might be nicer to support versioned manuals: both m4 > and autoconf copy the new manual into $pkg/manual/$pkg-$ver, then update > $pkg/manual/.symlinks to redirect $pkg/manual/xyz to > $pkg/manual/$pkg-$ver/xyz, so that the latest version of the manual > appears at the usual locations but older versions are still accessible > from their longer URL. Any suggestions for a command-line interface that > let gnu-web-doc-update should support this mode of operation?
Yes, that could be useful for any package with two or more versions in wide use -- presuming differences in their documentation. Maybe --dest-dir=$package-$version
