Re: multiple online manual versions

[Mike Frysinger]

i can work with this

so plan is to update maintainer/maint.mk:
* web-manual will insert a link to the full versioned index in the index.html
  that gendocs.sh produces
  * i'm assuming that we don't want to modify lib/gendocs_template since it's
    synced with upstream gnulib
* web-manual-update will also rsync a copy of the manual to manual/<version>/
* web-manual-update will update the full versioned index to include <version>

so the default manual/ landing page & manual will be unchanged from today
other than having a link to the full versioned index

then i can manually backfill older versions, add the initial full versioned
index page, and link it from the current index.html

which leaves the last bikeshed: what form to use for the full versioned page.
if we have it link to each version's landing page, that might side step some
debate.  so it'd look like:
<h2>GNU Automake Manuals</h2>
<ul>
 <li><a href="1.16">GNU Automake 1.16</a></li>
 <li><a href="1.15.1">GNU Automake 1.15.1</a></li>
 <li><a href="1.15">GNU Automake 1.15</a></li>
 <li><a href="1.14.1">GNU Automake 1.14.1</a></li>
 ...
</ul>

if we wanted to get fancy we could inline common targets like HTML/PDF,
but i'd be fine leaving it at an <ul> too.  not exactly a common flow.

<table>
<tr>
 <th>Date</th>
 <th>Version</th>
 <th>HTML</th>
 <th>PDF</th>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>Feb 2018</td>
 <td><a href="1.16">GNU Automake 1.16</a></td>
 <td><a href="1.16/automake.html">HTML</a></td>
 <td><a href="1.16/automake.pdf">PDF</a></td>
</tr>
...
-mike

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