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Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 07:51:38 +1000
Subject: Re: Old version docs don't link to current version
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 5/12/2013 10:12 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> Was this intentional, along the lines of not touching the old and
>> unsupported docs?
>
> Cross referencing was added while 3.2 docs were still subject to revision.
> x.y docs are essentially frozen once the final x.y.z bugfix comes out.

So, yeah, not touching the old docs. Okay!

It's not a particularly big deal, I can just delete a couple of
characters out of the URL. But it'd be nice if people who link to the
docs could start doing so using /3/ so that we have a chance of
getting past this eventually.

ChrisA