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outdated help links

Open ferdymercury opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

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Description

Most of the links in the source code starting with http://root.cern.ch/root/html/ point to a no longer existing URL

Reproducer

grep -r 'root/html' /opt/root_src/*

Another way to reproduce it is to go open a TRootBrowser, right click on a tree, "Scan", then click on "Online Help" button.

ROOT version

ROOT v6.32.00
Built for linuxx8664gcc on May 28 2024, 05:02:02
From tags/v6-32-00@v6-32-00
With c++ (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
Binary directory: /opt/root/bin

Installation method

Binary Release

Operating system

Ubuntu 22.04

Additional context

It could be that changing to root/htmldoc solves most of the 404s.

ferdymercury avatar Jul 01 '24 15:07 ferdymercury

Thanks a lot!! Missing a couple of occurrences in one file, now after: https://github.com/root-project/root/pull/16276/files

ferdymercury avatar Aug 21 '24 13:08 ferdymercury

Thanks @ferdymercury ! Given this change https://github.com/root-project/root/pull/16267/files#diff-dd81606cd750b320d9ed46d043eb5e5dceaf7e7dbcf2d4934cae69bbfc27138fR406 , which deprecates THtml (it will be dropped in 6.36), I would like to close this item nevertheless: would it be ok for you?

dpiparo avatar Aug 31 '24 05:08 dpiparo