[postgis-devel] PostGIS documentation on refractions.net website

[Paul Ramsey]

I've gone through the script and hopefully confirmed that it works. It
now generates to documentation/manual-1.3 and
documentation/manual-svn, and docs redirects to manual-1.3.

P.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Kevin Neufeld <kneufeld at refractions.net> wrote:
> I also think it's a good idea.  I was thinking something similar myself.
>
> Except I don't think your naming convention works.  If /docs is an alias for
> /docs/1.3, then /docs/1.4 would expand to /docs/1.3/1.4.  I think we would
> have to either use a different folder structure (like /docs_static/1.3) or
> put a redirect page at /docs/index.html (perhaps something along the lines
> of http://www.postgresql.org/docs/).
>
> I'm not aware of any hidden build-results file.  Though that would be a good
> thing to have.
>
> -- Kevin
>
> Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Given that there have been some changes to the configure options in SVN,
>> I'd like to propose a change in the website documentation process. Currently
>> SVN HEAD is extracted and built on postgis.refractions.net, but since many
>> people refer to this directly online I can see this being a source of
>> confusion.
>>
>> What I think would be a good solution would be the following:
>>
>>
>> - Generate 1.3 series documentation @
>> http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/1.3/ from the SVN 1.3 branch
>>
>> - Generate 1.4 series documentation @
>> http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/1.4/ from SVN HEAD
>>
>> - Alias http://postgis.refractions.net/docs onto the 1.3 series
>> documentation which represents the current latest release.
>>
>>
>> Would this be something that would be easily achievable? And also how do I
>> check any errors that may result from the building the documentation for the
>> website? Is this available as a hidden file somewhere in the web tree?
>>
>>
>> ATB,
>>
>> Mark.
>>
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