Re: [AD] another web site proposal

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-12-16, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gradha@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> El 16/12/2008, a las 1:01, Peter Wang escribió:
> 
> > The English pages could be changed a little to make translations  
> > easier,
> > e.g. by moving URLs into separate files.  Instead of writing:
> >
> >    Go [here](http://example.org) for this or that.
> >
> > we'd write:
> >
> >    Go [here][foo] for this or that.
> 
> This is nice in theory, but in practice it has practically never been  
> used in the old web. After all, even for languages like Korean it was  
> pretty easy to open the file and do a search/replace.
> 
> It also starts making the system complex where for cron you want the  
> database being updated regenerate files using the link, which starts  
> going into dependency hell and rebuilding your own make/scons/etc.  
> Unless you don't want to play nice and just regenerate everything  
> every time, though that breaks things like http caches and other stuff.
> 
> Don't bother with that unless it really is a priority for somebody.

Ok.  Should I just move the new site into place then?  And then you
can take care of the mirrors?

Peter