[gdal-dev] Documentation for previous versions

[Howard Butler]

Jon,

The way to get point-in-time docs for GDAL is to check out the last release branch for the version you care about and run doxygen or sphinx (3.0+) to build the HTML site.

Other than that, Sphinx does support multi-version tagging, but it would be a lot of work to retroactively apply tagging to the docs. A patch that did so would be welcomed.

Howard


> On Jun 5, 2020, at 2:48 AM, Jon Morris <Jon.Morris at jbarisk.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Thomas,
>  
> Looks like that is my best bet. Python docs are on there, so Wayback Machine saves the day again!
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jon
>  
> From: Thomas Juntunen <junt0015 at umn.edu <mailto:junt0015 at umn.edu>> 
> Sent: 04 June 2020 15:12
> To: Jon Morris <Jon.Morris at jbarisk.com <mailto:Jon.Morris at jbarisk.com>>
> Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Documentation for previous versions
>  
> Hi Jon,
> Maybe the Wayback Machine can help? For example, this url gets you the GDAL site from 2018 when 2.3 was new:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20180723211153/http://gdal.org/index.html <https://web.archive.org/web/20180723211153/http:/gdal.org/index.html>
>  
> Thomas
>  
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:00 AM Jon Morris <Jon.Morris at jbarisk.com <mailto:Jon.Morris at jbarisk.com>> wrote:
> Hello all,
>  
> I was wondering where we could find documentation for previous versions of GDAL? We are still using version 2.2.0 and there are occasions when we see a useful method in the docs only to find it is not available in our version. I presume the docs available at https://gdal.org/api/index.html <https://gdal.org/api/index.html> are for the latest released version?
>  
> I managed to install Doxygen and build docs for us to view locally, so we do actually have a C API reference for version 2.2.0 now, but I can't find where the Python docs are in the source. It would also be very useful to be able to see a different version of the docs at https://gdal.org/python/index.html <https://gdal.org/python/index.html>.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jon
>  
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