From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-08-25T08:07:27+09:00
Subject: Re: More ri-problems (ruby_1_8 branch again)

On Aug 24, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Dave Howell wrote:

> On Aug 24, 2006, at 7:21, Kent Sibilev wrote:
>
>> I agree the situation with ri is quite bad. Besides several apparent
>> bugs that must be fixed, ri has a new feature where it collects
>> information about a requested class from all installed gems.
>
> I'm a bit confused here. These sound like problems from rdoc, not  
> ri. At least some of them do. Could somebody clarify that for me?

RDoc doesn't record a method's file of origin, so you can't tell that  
Time::parse comes from time.rb while Time::local is built-in.

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