Re: [Savannah-hackers] address@hidden: virtual hostnames for gnu projects]

[Nic Ferrier]

Ron Peterson <address@hidden> writes:

> This discussion never lifted off.  I probably should have escalated it 
> earlier. 

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> Else we introduce relative links to gnu.org web pages.  But only for 
> project pages, when they refer to themselves.  (We don't want 
> FOO.gnu.org to refer to ../licenses/licenses.html, for example.)  This 
> seems confusing. 
>  

If you're interested, that's my preference. GNU already sanction
relative links (because of texinfo). It makes sense to allow that
within a project.

If you do that "projectX" can refer to it's "projectX.html" as:

   projectX.html

instead of:

   /software/projectX/projectX.html

It can continue to refer to another project using the full reference.



BTW I never understood why it was suggested that erradicating relative
links made mirroring easier, surely the problem is non-relative
links because they require that the whole page set be mirrored rather
than a small amount of it.


Nic