From: "J.Herre" Date: 2003-12-16T11:22:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Where to install documentation On Dec 15, 2003, at 2:46 PM, Eric Hodel wrote: > Dave Thomas (dave@pragprog.com) wrote: > >> >> 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//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? > > I'm not sure, maybe /usr/local/share/rdoc... IMHO it wouldn't go in the > ruby tree, but I'm no expert. > > There are non-plain-text documents in /usr/local/share/doc, including > HTML, PS, HPJL, Tex and troff. Of course, perl pod documentation is in $prefix/lib/perl5/site_perl/$ver on FreeBSD as well as every other platform I'm familiar with.