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[Allen Winter]

On Sunday 13 July 2008 08:18:40 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 July 2008 08:02:32 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> >> Allen Winter wrote:
> >>> Howdy,
> >>>
> >>> I removed links to the KDE 4.0 API documentation from the api.kde.org top page and
> >>> from the search results.  The documentation is still there, if you know where to look.
> >>> So external links to the 4.0 pages should still work.  Eventually, those pages will be
> >>> removed as well.
> >> Is there any reason for removing 4.0 doc? In a company I used to work 
> >> for, it was quite handy to have an online reference for the KDE version 
> >> which our distribution was running. KDE 3.4 was out but we were still 
> >> running 3.2.
> >>
> >> It's also useful to have old doc online in case a new method has been 
> >> introduced but the "@since" keyword is missing in the comment.
> >>
> > We can keep the old doc as long as we have the diskspace.
> > (and as long as I don't forget and remove it during a cleaning frenzy)
> 
> :-). Yes, I guess it takes quite some space.
> 
> > Do you want the old doc searchable from the search box?
> > Do you want the old doc accessible from links on the top page?
> 
> I would say both would be great, as long as it does not make 4.1 and 
> trunk doc more difficult to access.
> 
I added a KDE4 History page at http://api.kde.org/history4.php
But I really don't see much reason to add these older docs to the search.