<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I'd personally rather have a little link on all-but-latest package pages like "This is an older version. Jump to latest."</div><div><br></div><div>This would solve the annoying "google shows old versions" problem and also would be convenient for when someone does actually want to link to a specific version, but don't want novices-of-the-future to not realize they're looking at old docs.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><br></div><div><br>El Jul 9, 2015, a las 17:56, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Tikhon Jelvis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tikhon@jelv.is" target="_blank">tikhon@jelv.is</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">The problem, then, is visibility both to users and to Google. Since it's an actual redirect, your URL bar will show the specific version when you follow the link. The version number will also show up if you copy the URL from one of the links on the contents page even if you got there without specifying a version. (By following <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base</a></p><div style="display:inline-block;width:16px;height:16px"> </div> for example.)<p></p></blockquote></div><br>My understanding is that Hackage is using a link tag that Google claims should work... but in practice does not. I think latest urls are being actively considered as an alternative, if I understood the discussion properly.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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