I've now updated Hoogle to point at the new links. I still think the
old link's should be restored (perhaps as a permanent redirect code?),
but at least it doesn't break Hoogle now.
Thanks, Neil
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Malcolm Wallace
Too late. We had a stable link, I used it, Google used it, blog posts were written that linked to it, I've emailed my wife links to it, I've put them in Word documents, I've posted them on internal intranets. You can't create a link, put content behind it, then move the content - it just breaks the whole web.
And incidentally, the _ghc_docs_ themselves continue to use these stable links to library docs, most of which are currently broken.
All of the following links from documentation for ghc-6.12.1 give a 404 Not Found. (I do not claim the list is exhaustive.)
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/packages.html section 4.8 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Distribution-Sim... section 4.8.8 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Distribution-Ins...
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Distribution-Lic...
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/using-concurrent.htm... section 4.12 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurren...
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/primitives.html section 7.2 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC-Prim.html
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/syntax-extns.html section 7.3.10 links to http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/GHC-Exts.html
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/arrow-notation.html section 7.10 links twice to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Arrow.htm...
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/pragmas.html section 7.13.1 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Language-Haskell...
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/special-ids.html section 7.15 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC-Prim.html
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/lang-parallel.html section 7.18.1 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurren... section 7.18.2 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/stm/Control-Concurrent... section 7.18.4 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/parallel/Control-Paral...
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/parallel/Control-Paral...
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi.html section 8 incorrectly links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurren... where the real link ought to be http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Foreign.html
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi-ghc.html section 8.2.4.2 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurren...
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ghci-windows.html section 11.2 links to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/GHC-ConsoleHandle...
Regards, Malcolm
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