Constant URL references

[Heinrich Wendel]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:27:49PM +1100, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> For documents like the Desktop Entry Standard, could we have a link in
> the directory containing the spec that points to the latest version?
> This way documents can point to a URL and know that it will always be
> the most recent version of the specification document. Pointing to
> something like
> http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html will go out of date when 0.9.5 is released.
> 
> We should keep the versioned filename as well, of course. But just a
> symlink from, say, desktop-entry-spec.html to the latest version would
> be nice.

I think this is a good idea, I added the creation of a symlink to the latest version as specname-latest.html and in the latest subdir to the script.

> 
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
mfg, Heinrich