From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-12-16T07:23:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Where to install documentation


On Dec 15, 2003, at 16:18, Eric Hodel wrote:

> Dave Thomas (dave@pragprog.com) wrote:
>
>> Folks:
>>
>> The new RDoc/ri code needs to have a system-level directory on the
>> user's machine where it can store the documentation. Where should this
>> be? My current thinking is
>>
>>    $prefix/site_ruby/<ver>/doc/rdoc
>>
>> Does this fit in with current conventions?
>
> Not on FreeBSD, documentation goes in /usr/local/share/doc/
> for third-party software.

Except this isn't really documentation you can read - it's a bunch of 
yaml-serialized objects... Would it still go in a directory outside the 
Ruby tree?

Cheers

Dave