From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2004-05-19T08:21:05+09:00
Subject: Re: RI for distribution

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

>So, even if you document every class, perhaps you should only put a
>few filenames in .document.
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Yeah, that's the answer I was looking for.

>I'm sure Dave will have a suggestion.
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>RubyGems currently creates RDoc HTML output (when asked) but not ri
>data.  Your wish is noted, and will speed the process of getting it
>done.
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Great.  You're doing great work on RubyGems, Gavin.  Yeah, I'd think ri 
output would generally be more useful to people than the HTML documentation.

>Now why would you want to include protected and private methods in an
>ri dump?  And what's in the doc/ directory?
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Umph.  Sorry.  lib/.

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