From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-12-18T02:59:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Where to install documentation


On Dec 17, 2003, at 11:14, Chad Fowler wrote:

> This sounds good generally.  Did you mean it to be:
> $datadir/rdoc/std/rdoc/html
>    and
> $datadir/rdoc/site/rdoc/ri
>

no - I just included the rdoc to show where the previous directory 
names matched up.
>
> What's the reasoning behind site/rdoc and std/rdoc?  I may be 
> misreading
> this.
>

This is so that you can install point releases of Ruby without 
overwriting documentation installed by the local users. The standard 
distribution loads documentation for internals andthings in lib/ and 
ext/. If you download (say) DBI and ask to install its documentation 
globally, it'll go into site/

Cheers

Dave