Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:00:41 GMT From: Vitaly Bogdanov <gad@gad.glazov.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/74477: [patch] Correct several links in the contributing article Message-ID: <200603171700.k2HH0fpd002655@freefall.freebsd.org>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
The following reply was made to PR docs/74477; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Vitaly Bogdanov <gad@gad.glazov.net> To: bug-followup@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/74477: [patch] Correct several links in the contributing article Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:49:03 +0400 >...... >...... >> > @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ >> > <listitem> >> > <para>Get copies of formal standards like &posix;. You can >> > get some links about these standards at the <ulink >> > - url=3D"&url.base;/projects/c99/index.html">FreeBSD >> > + >> > url=3D"http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/c99/index.html">FreeBSD >> > C99 & POSIX Standards Conformance Project</ulink> web >> > site. Compare FreeBSD's behavior to that required by the >> > standard. If the behavior differs, particularly in subtle >> >> Hmm. This is not right. There should be a better way to specify >> that a >> url is part of the web build and will not be present locally when >> the >> docs are built. Perhaps we can make URLS_ABSOLUTE= yes the default >> and >> override it during a web build? > >Yes, I agree, there should be a better way to achieve this. My patch >does not correct the real problem, it only avoids it. I dissagre. Why should something strange and difficult be invented? As I can understand, there are no advantages in using `'&url.base;/.....`' for www/ content. Simple using absolute dns names everywhere in references to web-site content (not doc/ tree) seems to be more superior and easy solution. -- Vitaly
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200603171700.k2HH0fpd002655>