Dave Fisher wrote:
I think that we can purge these *.htm duplicates, but if we do it
will be a "sledgehammer" build.
It will also be a problem, unless we accompany it with other changes:
for example, http://www.openoffice.org/pt/ would completely break, and
all external sites that now link to some of our .htm files would break too.
It was intentional. Before doing so we would need to make a group
decision about how to treat the two types of files.
Regardless of what templates we apply, the best solution should:
1) Allow a .htaccess redirect/rewrite from .htm to .html (to preserve
existing internal and external links)
2) Have the SVN file names match the URLs: editing a file named
"news.htm" in SVN should not result in a change in a page with URL
".../news.html". The current handling confuses the CMS too (for example,
no diff is reported). So either we mass-rename files from .htm to .html
and rely on 1) above, or we don't change .htm to .html but publish .htm
URLs.
There are two different procedures from view.pm used: ...
There are several templates used from templates/.
To me, .htm and .html are not different file types and were never used
as such: I mean, volunteers historically committed .htm or .html
according to their habits, but it doesn't make sense to have different
ways of handling them now. So I would tend to rename all .htm to .html
and put the .htaccess redirect in place, and have only one "type" of
HTML files to handle.
Regards,
Andrea.
