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Re: [wwwdocs] news.html -- adjust link to GCC Wiki page
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez
<lopezibanez@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/03/2008, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> > Someone/something must have changed a number of URLs on the GCC Wiki;
> > this fixes one of those issues.
>
> The update to MoinMoin 1.6 messed up all URLs that contained spaces.
> That was certainly a bad thing because many of our wiki pages did
> contain spaces. So many external links to the wiki will be broken. I
> think the best fix (rather than fixing the external links) is to
> (re)create the page with spaces in the name and make it point to the
> new page using #REDIRECT
Spaces became not allowed characters in moin moin, but it should have
auto-redirected.
>
> For example, see the source code of
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC%204.1%20Projects?action=edit&editor=text
>
> It would be ideal to do this in an automatic way if someone knows how
> to modify the wiki database directly. Even better would be to revert
> the space to underscore conversion altogether since [[a page with
> spaces]] still works as before, so I can't really grasp why all those
> pages where converted.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Manuel.
>