Re: man.cgi in "online" mode

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Hi Kristaps,

agreeing with and snipping most of what you said,
let me just try to alleviate one headache:

Kristaps Dzonsons wrote on Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:15:00AM +0100:

> The only headache part is the old manuals, but let's talk about
> that later.

Oh, the old manuals are not compulsory.
The idea is to serve 5.0 and higher, including -current,
with the new man.cgi and continue to serve the history archive
with the old script, at least for now.
In case we ever get bored, we might rethink that later,
but I agreed on this approch with Bob and Theo in Ljubljana.

> Again, the "old versions" bothers me, but I don't really have any
> idea how that's maintained even now.

Poorly.
By letting it rot.  ;-/

> I'm guessing the man.cgi server has a forest of manpage trees in
> there somewhere.

Yes, that is my understanding as well, and that is not going to
change: The new man.cgi will continue to need one tree per
release, and one additional -current tree that is replaced
by a new snapshot now and then.

Yours,
  Ingo
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