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Allow multiple versions of documentation

Open deucalion opened this issue 9 years ago • 9 comments

Except with workarounds like for Java (which provides multiple packages for SE6, SE7 etc) there is currently no mechanism to provide versioned DocSets.

Given that in many frameworks, having multiple versions would be necessary (e.g. with Spring 3.x + 4.x, iOS 7.0, 7.1, 8.0 etc.) to switch when you're developing for different apps this would be a very exciting feature to have.

Would this be possible and in the interest of the developers, and if yes, who of the users would be interested in this as well?

Thanks!

deucalion avatar Oct 12 '14 18:10 deucalion

I'm interested in Yii versioning. Kapeli says that there are means for that in the Dash app. Cannot check, though.

sheershoff avatar Nov 26 '14 11:11 sheershoff

I've been looking into this as well. There is version information in the xml metadata in docset.

nineinchnick avatar Nov 26 '14 13:11 nineinchnick

What the Drupal did was a "Drupal_7" docset and "Drupal_8" docset, for the moment is the only way to separate it. Right?

killua99 avatar Nov 27 '14 11:11 killua99

I'm actually interested in multiple versions of PostgreSQL. When reading the docs online there are links at the top of the page to easily switch between versions. This is useful when you want to see how a feature changed between versions and it's very likely to stumble upon older servers in the wild.

nineinchnick avatar Nov 27 '14 20:11 nineinchnick

I would also love this feature but I don't know C or C++. If you ever find the time to add this feature it will be really useful and I will buy you a coffee (send a small donation).

NTCoding avatar Feb 24 '15 10:02 NTCoding

No news on this feature? I’m just curious. 🙂 I’m struggling to install a docset of an earlier version of Python.

GilDev avatar Apr 07 '22 13:04 GilDev

I often work with multiple versions of products in different environments, it would be very nice to be able to install multiple versions of the docs as well.

cu avatar Sep 27 '22 19:09 cu

waiting for this feature

roamerop avatar Mar 10 '23 11:03 roamerop

I am interested in this feature and have started poking around the code to think about an implementation. Are the old versions hosted on go.zealdocs.org? I see where the latest version comes from but I'm not sure what path, if any, should be used to pull an older version listed in the metadata. Any advice would be appreciated.

corytodd avatar Jun 22 '23 02:06 corytodd