Re: docs cleanup patch

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: docs cleanup patch
Date: 2010-04-02 15:29:44
Message-ID: m2q9837222c1004020829j7412120me2f050ffc4fb8940@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:43, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Here's a patch which mostly fixes broken URLs in code comments.
>
> Summary of doc. changes:
>  * heapfuncs.c: fix awkward comment phrasing
>
> I also tried to fix as many broken URLs as I could find.
>  * imath.h, imath.c: homepage for M.J. Fromberger moved
>  * sha1.c, sha1.h: new location of FIPS pub 180-1
>  * sha2.c: changed URL of PDF describing SHA-256/384/512 to one of the
> only active links I could find. archive.org still has the old copy at
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/shs/sha256-384-512.pdf
>  * spell.h: I think this was just pointing to the manpage for
> hunspell. I changed to the project page for hunspell, though maybe
> it'd be better to point to some other copy of the man page somewhere,
> e.g. http://pwet.fr/man/linux/fichiers_speciaux/hunspell
>  * dirmod.c: codeproject.com has shuffled pages

Thanks, applied!

> Didn't change:
>  * be-secure.c: the URL http://www.skip-vpn.org/spec/numbers.html is
> down, and I can't find an active copy anywhere else, so I didn't try
> to change this. archive.org still has it though (
> http://web.archive.org/web/20011212141438/http://www.skip-vpn.org/spec/numbers.html
> )

The page in archive.org also refers to skip.org, which has expired and
been eaten. Perhaps we should just remove that comment completely?

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Magnus Hagander
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