RE: Broken link and defunct search

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> >   sed -e 's/_002d/-/g' -e 's/_002a/*/g'
> >
> > to a strategic place to the wwwdocs/bin/preprocess script on gcc.gnu.org.
> I don't see this in CVS yet.

I just added it locally, because it is so ugly.  If I haven't heard
back from the makeinfo folks by next week, I'll commit it.

> > Joseph, do you want to do something similar for /onlinedocs?  The URLs
> > generated by makeinfo 4.7 are simply gross (and currently external links
> > and bookmarks into /onlinedocs are broken).
> If makeinfo isn't going to change back then I think we simply need to
> update all links pointing from our pages into the onlinedocs for mainline.
> The stability of URLs for mainline docs is never guaranteed, as manual
> sections may be renamed freely.

True, but feel, and strongly so, that the new schema is a design failure 
and needlessly uglifies user-visible URLs, so I really would like us to
consider restoring the old scheme even without upstream support.

Gerald