From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Panu Matilainen Subject: Re: Previous DPDK version API documentation for app developers Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:55:02 +0200 Message-ID: <54DC7876.60103@redhat.com> References: <20150212070635.GA31227@mhcomputing.net> <54DC6C5C.6020005@redhat.com> <2960598.7hMdY0fNP6@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org To: Thomas Monjalon Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2960598.7hMdY0fNP6@xps13> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" 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 -