From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-02-18T06:31:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Where should shared rdocs be installed?



On Feb 16, 4:50 pm, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Under a normal installation of a ruby library/program --eg. using
> setup.rb, where ought rdocs be installed? setup.rb doesn't do this of
> course, but I'm adding support for it. But I'm not sure what system
> locations the rdocs should use. setup.rb defines three possible
> "installdirs" modes: std for libruby, site for site_ruby and home for
> $HOME. So I'm trying to figure what the corresponding doc locations
> would be.
>
> I note that rdoc itself has equivalent locations defined for ri docs,
> given as options: --ri-system, --ri-site, and --ri. But not so for the
> rdocs themselves.

I guess I figured it out -- I'll just save it like any documenation:

   /usr/share/doc/{name}/rdoc/

I suppose one might argue for a central place, like ri, eg.

  /usr/share/doc/rdoc/1.8/site/{name}/

But that's for other's to decide if that's the proper place .

T.