Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Besides, isn't it worth a tiny sacrifice to avoid > systematically including meaningless (and long) strings > like onlinepubs/009695399/ in our code and documentation?
I'm reluctant to put URLs like that in the code or documentation, since they mutate too rapidly with time. For example, they changed last year. (I noticed since I sometimes give programming assignments that reference these pages.) If we had URLs like that, it'd be yet another thing to maintain when a new version of POSIX comes out, and I'd rather not have the hassle of keeping URLs up-to-date. It would be nice if the Open Group had an easy way of saying "get me the latest version of the man page for fopen, whatever that is". That would handle my objection. _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
