[GRASS-dev] generic address to access the manuals of the current stable version ?

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:29 AM Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> ISTR some discussion about this (but maybe I just dreamed it ;-)), but
> how difficult would it be to create some sort of symlink to be able to
> point
>
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass/
> or
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-stable/
>
> to the current stable version, i.e. now
>
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/

That's easy.

We already have it in place for source code, like

https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8-latest.tar.gz

but not yet at "upper" level.

> This would allow to point to the currently stable version of the manual
> pages from websites without having to worry about updating those links
> at each new release.
>
> Not sure if this is an issue for the core code or for the website.

I need to add this as a redirect to the Apache server. Just takes 5 minutes.
Which redirects do we want?

Markus