Re: #852 - stop google from indexing old docs

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Mats Bengtsson
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Graham Percival wrote:
>>
>> Note that if anybody wants to do serious archeological work, they
>> can just grab git
>
> Yes!

Is this a vote in favor of removing the v1.9 docs from the website,
and leaving v1.8 and v2.0 online?

>> and compile whatever version they want.
>>
>
> Probably not, because of incompatibilities with current versions of Python,
> Guile, GCC, ...

If somebody is *serious* about the archeology of open-source projects,
they'll have a bunch of boxes with cira-1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, etc.
development tools installed.  :)

No, I haven't heard of anybody doing such work yet, but I could
imagine that within the next 50 years some sociologist or historian or
whatever might be digging through old mailist archives and tracking
changes to git and whatnot.  I've seen weirder PhD thesis projects.

Cheers,
- Graham