Links to old versions of the workshop materials are not working

[VukanJ]

To reproduce, go to the Archive and try accessing the 2019 material

[aknierim]

That may be due to a restructure of the repo, but we thought about getting rid of older archived material anyway. The plan would be to only include the current and the previous year.

[VukanJ]

Personally I don't see the harm in providing the old material, usually one has good reason to search for it. But either way is fine I guess, as we have the repo

[aknierim]

I think the idea was to have an archive that is less cluttered... I see your point though. But the plan was to still keep the archive inside the repo, iirc.

The commit that broke the links is https://github.com/pep-dortmund/homepage-toolbox/commit/c55ed6979a649606eca7ad2c2cf07e5a1d9de964; notice the double slashs in front of links for material up to 2021.

[maxnoe]

Personally I don't see the harm in providing the old material, usually one has good reason to search for

What would be a good reason to search for lectures that are for software that is outdated by 5 years?

[VukanJ]

I wanted to look up something booktabs related, which has been replaced.

[maxnoe]

Booktabs docs can be found here: https://ctan.org/pkg/booktabs/ or using texdoc booktabs

[aknierim]

You can look at the 2022 material. We switched to tabularray in 2023.

[VukanJ]

Very nice, thanks for letting me know that there is a manual @maxnoe Instead of showing slides we should consider giving students a list of texdoc commands.

[maxnoe]

We should teach people to find things in documentation, yes, instead of using 5 year old material for things they want to do now, yes.

Another general solution for accessing old information on websites is the internet archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20200921003609/https://toolbox.pep-dortmund.org/files/archive/2019/latex.pdf

[VukanJ]

Well, thanks for the lesson.