[Python-Dev] How best to handle the docs for a renamed module? (original) (raw)

André Malo nd at perlig.de
Fri May 16 14:52:19 CEST 2008


On 2008-05-12 04:34, Brett Cannon wrote: > For the sake of argument, let's consider the Queue module. It is now > named queue. For 2.6 I plan on having both Queue and queue listed in > the index, with Queue deprecated with instructions to use the new > name. > > But what to do about all the references. Should we leave them pointing > at Queue to lessen confusion for people who read about some module on > some other site that isn't using the new name, or update everything in > 2.6 to use the new name?

How hard would it be to add a redirects from the old pages to the new ones ? modrewrite does wonders - well, provided you find the right patterns...

The "pattern" can be a simple text file maintained in subversion::

oldurl newurl ...

And then you can utilize RewriteMap to get that into the apache.

nd



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