[wwwdocs] news.html -- adjust link to GCC Wiki page
Daniel Berlin
dberlin@dberlin.org
Sun Mar 23 06:57:00 GMT 2008
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez
<lopezibanez@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Space should be converting to _, IIRC.
> 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.
Again, this was moinmoin's doing :)
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