[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] URL fix for

Sebastian Krämer mail at kraymer.de
Mon Jun 30 23:30:55 CEST 2008


On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:05:43 +0200, "Guillaume POIRIER"
<poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There's a FIXME note in documentation.xml about the URL of list archives.
> Even though we don't have a page with direct link to the archives,
> this patch attempts to help things out by giving the list of mailing
> list, each of them linking to their archives...
> 
> Thoughts?

While it is a good thing to fix the FIXME, I don't think linking to the
archives as they are is particularly helpful. That's because there is no
search method available, and you won't browse through all months' archives
to look out for your particular problem if you don't know where to look
anyway.

What I'd do is to use google on that site only, I came up with something
ugly like

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&hl=de&q=%2Bhttp%3A%2F%2Flists.mplayerhq.hu%2Fpipermail%2Fmplayer-users%2F

to search for things only in the pipermail/mplayer-users domain. But I'm
not sure this link really fits the documentation either.. We could of
course create a page on mplayerhq that contains a google search box.. But
I'm not sure that is wanted.

So why was the search on mplayerhq deactivated again? Lost functionality,
porting problem, too high system load, ..?


Sebastian



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