[CC += Elliott] Hi Rodrigo, On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 01:49:47PM GMT, Rodrigo Campos wrote: > On 5/21/24 1:27 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Is then HTTP okay for you? MY website works with HTTP just fine, and > > Not really. Lot of browsers switch to https, even if you don't redirect on > the server. Yep. > > doesn't try to switch to HTTPS (but browsers these days got dumber and > > may force HTTPS). Or do you need something from me? It wasn't clear to > > me from your response. > > I prefer an HTML website (a 8mb pdf is not the best experience, specially on > mobile), and a fixed link that is kept updated with the latest info is what > I'd love (doesn't matter if it is latest git or latest release, the fact > that is periodically updated is what matter to me). This has been asked in the past at least by a Google (bionic libc) employee. If any company is willing to put money in it, we could do something; here are certainly programmers that could do it (I'm not just thinking of setting up a website, but also of improving the tools that generate the HTML from manual pages; that is, groff(1)). > Something like man7.org or man.die.net would be great, if they were updated. It seems man7.org gets updated eventually. The period for those events is unknown to me, though. Not too often. linux.die.net/man is frozen in the past it seems. > > I might be able to set up hardlinks in <kernel.org> with kup(1) to have > > <.../man-pages-latest.pdf> if HTTP doesn't work for you. I'd need to > > manually update it at every release, though (but I guess it's not that > > bad). > > Thanks a lot! But I'm not sure linking such a big PDF is nice, I think I'll > just mention to check the manpage. > > I'll let you know if I find a use case for the latest PDF, thanks! :) You're welcome! :-) > Best, > Rodrigo Have a lovely day! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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