#501 Hardcoded url to help and website from help-menu

[Kimmo Varis]

in CMainFrame::OnHelpContents():

CString url =
_T("http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/docs20/index.html");

This should be in resource? Or?

[Kimmo Varis]

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Tweaking summary, WinMerge homepage is also hardcoded into
CAboutDlg::OnInitDialog():
m_ctlWWW.m_link = _T("http://winmerge.sourceforge.net");

[Christian List]

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If we imagine that someone might actually translate the
user's guide at some point, then yes we should move them to
the resources.

At the very least I guess these should really be changed to:
http://winmerge.org/docs20/index.html
and
http://winmerge.org

And for 2.2 it should even be:
http://winmerge.org/docs22/index.html
But that doesn't exist yet.
I imagine we put the new DocBook version up there when it's
ready.

[Kimmo Varis]

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I fixed URLs. Leaving bug open for moving to resource later.

Checking in MainFrm.cpp;
/cvsroot/winmerge/WinMerge/Src/MainFrm.cpp,v <-- MainFrm.cpp
new revision: 1.153; previous revision: 1.152
done
Checking in Merge.cpp;
/cvsroot/winmerge/WinMerge/Src/Merge.cpp,v <-- Merge.cpp
new revision: 1.60; previous revision: 1.59
done

[Tim Gerundt]

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> And for 2.2 it should even be:
> http://winmerge.org/docs22/index.html

I think a other good URL could be:
http://winmerge.org/2.2/docs/index.html

All "2.2" stuff could go into this subdirectory. Like
screenshots, changelogs, ...
For the current version we could use "winmerge.org/2.0/" and
later "/2.4/" and so on. ;)
So the stuff remains online, after a new WinMerge version.
Good for people, who use older version.

With an Apache Redirect <http://httpd.apache.org/docs-
2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect> we could move
the "/docs20/" directory to the new URL.

Regards,
Tim

[Christian List]

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In the SourceForge documentation I found this:
One of the benefits of our use of the Apache web server
software is that your project may override some of the
defaults used in our configuration through the use of
an .htaccess file. It should be noted that we only support a
subset of these directives, specifically those overrides in
these categories: AuthConfig, Limit, FileInfo, Options.

The redirect stuff is in the FileInfo category, so we can
indeed make an Apache override for this if we want to.
I am no Apache wizard, so if you could suggest the content
of an .htaccess file, then I would be gratefull.

Please also remember we still have the old WinMerge 1.7 stuff
out there on these URL's
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/WinMerge17/index.html

They should be included in any new scheme we think of.

[Tim Gerundt]

Kimmo, you moved all URLs to the file "Constants.h". Do you still think we should move the URLs to resources?

[Kimmo Varis]

The point to have manual URL in the resource is for the case we support translated manual. Or perhaps translate some web pages?