Hi all; the GNOME developer documentation website has been updated, after many years of service: [developer-new] What changed Instead of a custom web application, the new website is generated by Sphinx from simple reStructureText files, and automatically published through GitLab’s CI pipeline. T…

Great work Emmanuele and all other contributors!

[image] ebassi: The API references will be published separately by the same GNOME build that generates run times and VM images; more information on that will be available soon. Will a redirect be set up for all the old documentation links? Like GLib – 2.0

Ideally, yes. In practice, the redirects will likely be used when we publish the SDK documentation.

Now most of the existing API docs links fail! This is for links in tutorials, private bookmarks, and google provided links. As DevHelp does not provide GTK4 Docs, I used in the last 18 months mostly my bookmarks or I asked google, i.e. with a query string like “gtk4 gtkentry” to get fast access to…

I have the same problem. All the reference documentation is gone.

It’s not gone: the first post tells you exactly where it was moved.

It’s not gone: the first post tells you exactly where it was moved. How long will it take google to update all its links? How long will it take me to update all my browser links and the references in the GTK4 Nim book? I think I have never seen such a drastic change in the last 20 years, not ev…

You’re not meant to modify your links to go to the old website: it should be “fixed” in a few weeks (hopefully earlier) when the new site has most documentation.

I understand the pain, but the site cannot be restructured in a way that is not going to break the existing URLs—short of literally creating a separate site. Then we’d have two different API references websites, one of which is not going to be touched any more, and will break Google and external web…

Well, all the google searches still return the “old” links, which result in 404 errors. So at least a “please look over there” wildcard page for the old content, would be helpful.

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pgriffis (Patrick Griffis) July 30, 2021, 4:19pm 3

Will a redirect be set up for all the old documentation links? Like GLib – 2.0