Phil Boswell wrote:
"Kate" <keturner(a)livejournal.com>
wrote in message
news:6019986.1hDDKoznoz@rose.local...
in 1.5, we have the possibility of changing URLs
used for projects.
[examples snipped]
For the sake of lowering blood-pressure all around, should be assume that
these new formats are **in addition** to those currently in use?
I like them, but I echo the concerns of those worried about breaking inward
links.
Just to emphasize:
We are *strongly* committed to maintaining the functioning of existing
incoming links. I've made this promise several times over the last three
years, and I'm happy to make it again.
If and when we change URL styles (as in the past moving from
*.wikipedia.com to *.wikipedia.org, from
www.wikipedia.org to
en.wikipedia.org, from /wiki.cgi?Title to /wiki/Title, and from
/w/wiki.phtml to /w/index.php) the old links will continue to work by
automatic redirect or just by both working at once.
Actually I like the possiblity of specifying links in
more than one way to
allow maximal flexibility. If we **can** handle it, then we **should**
handle it. The principle of "least surprise" should come into pre-emptive
action here.
There needs however to be a 'canonical' form: this is what the software
itself will produce links as, and for cachable items where a single
purgeable URL needs to exist and redirects are used, that's where other
forms will get redirected to.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)