When using the <versioning plugin>, what should I ...

# dokka

[mbonnin]

When using the versioning plugin, what should I use for "older versions"? I can't really take the output of all the previous runs because they already includes each the k-1 older versions in dokka/html/older meaning the amount of data needed to build n versions grows like n*(n-1)/2 (I think, maths are hard!)
Would it make sense to only provide version n-1?

[rnett]

I ran into this in the past and had a "older versions" folder, and removed dokka/html/older when copying past versions into that folder

[rnett]

Was supposedly fixed at one point: https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/issues/1940

[Oleg Yukhnevich]

Hey!
Have you tried following instructions here https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/blob/master/dokka-subprojects/plugin-versioning/README.md ?
Also, you can take a look on ktor setup here: https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/blob/f13ca47f4100fb457b1bed70f3d197c4b39d6149/build.gradle.kts#L167-L176
and the resulting HTML content here: https://github.com/ktorio/api.ktor.io/tree/main/versions
Also, as far I see from our tests for versioning plugin, there is no nested older directories when building documentation (attached screenshot), so everything should be fine ^_^
Note: I haven't yet tried to use versioning plugin for some real project, but I will be glad to help with any issues you will find during your path 🙂

[mbonnin]

Have you tried following instructions here

Ha, thanks! I actually read that page except the last paragraph 🤦‍♂️ . This is how I ended up doing it