From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BBEDE0 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:55:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t1C9t31R011905 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 12 Feb 2015 04:55:04 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (vpn1-5-97.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.5.97]) by int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t1C9t2hO001058; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 04:55:03 -0500 Message-ID: <54DC7876.60103@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:55:02 +0200 From: Panu Matilainen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Monjalon References: <20150212070635.GA31227@mhcomputing.net> <54DC6C5C.6020005@redhat.com> <2960598.7hMdY0fNP6@xps13> In-Reply-To: <2960598.7hMdY0fNP6@xps13> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.26 Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Previous DPDK version API documentation for app developers X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:55:08 -0000 On 02/12/2015 11:39 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2015-02-12 11:03, Panu Matilainen: >> On 02/12/2015 09:06 AM, Matthew Hall wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I ran into a funny situation today with the API documentation. >>> >>> For stability until I can get my app mostly working, I was using DPDK 1.7.X, >>> so I could concentrate on making the app reliable. But the DPDK website only >>> has the API docs for DPDK 1.8.X / HEAD. >>> >>> I was wondering if we could have copies of the most recent few versions in the >>> site, and some scripts or steps to regenerate locally so you can get the >>> matching version in the local machine. >> >> Same goes for release notes: old versions should be kept around and >> preferably at the original url, which requires them to be versioned from >> the start. > > Panu, release notes are part of the git tree since release 1.8. > Sure, but what you find at http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/rel_notes?h=releases&id=v1.8.0 is not very presentable, even if it is readable in the "source" format. What I mean is ... oh, http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-1.8/ works so it IS already there, only entirely hidden in the sense that nothing at all points to the versioned tree AFAICS. So never mind then :) except perhaps making the versioned docs (API and all) more visible. - Panu -