library documentation has unstable URLs
Currently google is returning URLs for ghc libraries that return 404, eg: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Data-List.html
The new URL is with base-4.2.0.1 rather than base-4.2.0.0.
This is not google's fault, it is our fault. We are using unstable URLs. Of course, we cannot guarantee full stability as modules get added/removed however we can do much better than breaking all URLs every time.
I suggest we have two sets of stable URLs, versioned URLs and "latest"/unversioned URLs:
/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Data-List.html
/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-List.htmlThis will either mean generating them separately so that links between packages work, or using redirects such as:
/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.1/
->
/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/so that we can generate the docs once and use them at both the "latest" and ghc-versioned locations.
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| Version | 6.12.2 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Documentation |
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