CGAL
Beta release 5.5 beta1
It looks like that the documentation of the 5.5-beta1 release points to the documentation of the master version, see the second link on the page: https://www.cgal.org/2022/06/06/cgal55-beta1/
Regarding the examples it looks like that the example files:
- https://www.cgal.org/demo/5.5/triangulation_on_sphere_2.zip
- https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/v5.5/CGAL-5.5-examples.tar.xz
- https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/v5.5/CGAL-5.5-examples.zip
aren't yet present
The last two links will be fixed as soon as the release is out. The first one will be valid once @janetournois is done from back-porting the creation script from a computer that unexpectedly fried.
For the URL https://doc.cgal.org/5.5/Manual/index.html, I have fixed that:
- now https://doc.cgal.org/5.6/Manual/index.html redirects to
master, - https://doc.cgal.org/5.5/Manual/index.html redirects to the documentation of 5.5-beta1.
As for the links to tarballs, the way we build the documentation, the documentation of CGAL-5.5-beta1 is presented as if it was the documentation of CGAL-5.5. I do not know what we should change so that the -beta1 part can be taken into account. That will be "fixed" once CGAL-5.5 is published, but during the beta period, I understand that those links are confusing.
I saw that the version 5.5. was released but here there is a reference to https://www.cgal.org/demo/5.5/triangulation_on_sphere_2.zip and this tries to redirect to the non existing page https://www.cgal.org/demo/3.9/triangulation_on_sphere_2.zip so it looks like @janetournois hasn't finished yet the "back-porting the creation script from a computer that unexpectedly fried." For me this is not a big issue, but for real users ..., so maybe a temporary page or a temporary zip file should be installed with the message that the issue is know and that from the CGAL side work is in progress to get the example up and running.
@lrineau, @janetournois What is the status regarding the demo: https://www.cgal.org/demo/5.5/triangulation_on_sphere_2.zip?
I had a look at the 5.6 and 6.0 version of the documentation and here a file downloaded (looked like a file with recent content).
With the 5.5.3 version there is indeed still no version as also indicated by the:
in the history of this issue.
- will there still be an attempt to create the 5.5 version? or will the problem "vanish" as soon as the 5.5 version is not supported anymore (not a nice idea / thought).
In my opinion we only need to publish the latest version of the precompiled demos. For older versions, it is still possible to compile them from the branch, but it has not much interest.
@sloriot @lrineau can we close this issue?
