Daniel Stutzbach <dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> added the comment:
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Terry J. Reedy <rep...@bugs.python.org>wrote:
> I think this effectively impossible for volunteers. Microsoft has 1000s of
> paid employees. Chapter and Sections numbers do not match from version to
> version.
>
We don't need to match numbers, we just need to match links, which in 99% of
all cases follow a regular pattern:
For example:
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/fractions.html
http://docs.python.org/library/fractions.html
http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.5/library/fractions.html
It's pretty easy to generate the links to the corresponding pages. The
trickier part is testing that the link is valid when building the pages.
In an ideal universe, there would be a way to manually specify when a page
has been renamed (e.g., _winreg -> winreg), but even if those links were
missing it would still be quite useful (IMO, of course).
How many other versions would you link to? Multiple links could get a bit
> ugly.
>
The same number as currently listed in the sidebar on the index page.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Terry J. Reedy <span
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rep...@bugs.python.org";
target="_blank">rep...@bugs.python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think this effectively impossible for volunteers. Microsoft has 1000s of paid
employees. Chapter and Sections numbers do not match from version to
version.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We don't need to match
numbers, we just need to match links, which in 99% of all cases follow a
regular pattern:</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example:</div><div><br></div><div><a
href="http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/fractions.html";
target="_blank">http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/fractions.html</a></div><div><a
href="http://docs.python.org/library/fractions.html";
target="_blank">http://docs.python.org/library/fractions.html</a></div>
<div><a href="http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.5/library/fractions.html";
target="_blank">http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.5/library/fractions.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's
pretty easy to generate the links to the corresponding pages. Â The trickier
part is testing that the link is valid when building the pages.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In an ideal universe, there would be a way to manually
specify when a page has been renamed (e.g., _winreg -> winreg), but even if
those links were missing it would still be quite useful (IMO, of course).</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
How many other versions would you link to? Multiple links could get a bit
ugly.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The same number as currently listed
in the sidebar on the index page.</div></div>
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