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(1) By anonymous on 2020-12-13 22:14:28 [link] [source]

The "chronology" page at www.sqlite.org/chronology.html lists all 310 historic versions over the past two decades.

Are you able to point to a location where "documentation - static HTML files" archive could be found for each version?

(2) By Richard Hipp (drh) on 2020-12-14 01:45:23 in reply to 1 [link] [source]

Some legacy documentation is still available on the server using names like this:

  • https://sqlite.org/YEAR/sqlite-doc-3XXYYZZ.zip

Where YEAR is the four digit year of the release (ex: 2020) and XX is the minor version number (most recent is "34") and YY and ZZ are patch and subpatch numbers, usually "00".

If you can find the documentation for a specific version using that formula, then great. But there are no guarantees that all versions are still archived. And, this technique will only work for releases after 3.7.16 on 2013-03-18.

For releases between 3.5.2 and 3.7.15.2, you will need to pull the documentation source code from the documentation repository located at:

You can clone that repository, then check-out the version that corresponds to a release and build it yourself. This will not be for the faint of heart. It will probably only work on a Linux desktop. However, it is the only way to get the as-released documentation for older releases.

Prior to 2007-11-12, the documentation source code was kept in the main SQLite source repository. So for really old version (version 3.5.2 and earlier) you will need to clone the source code repository and then build the documentation sources using the files in the www/ subfolder of the source tree. As before, this is not for the faint of heart.

(3) By anonymous on 2020-12-16 23:59:57 in reply to 2 [link] [source]

Are you able to "detail" or "explain" how to "build the documentation sources using the files in www/ subfolder" of the source tree?

Take an example of version 3.6.20, if you wish.

(4) By Warren Young (wyoung) on 2020-12-22 18:15:25 in reply to 3 [source]

Bump on behalf of the anonymous user who attempted to start a second thread.

Anonymous, please just respond to this thread rather than start whole new threads with duplicate questions.