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Re: [wwwdocs] news.html -- adjust link to GCC Wiki page
On 22/03/2008, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:
> 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.
Actually, what changed is precisely the magic conversion from _ to
space. Space is allowed just as before. I can't understand why the
links were modified when updating to 1.6. A massive search&replace of
every page name and internal link in our wiki database that has _ to
space should fix this.
Cheers,
Manuel.