From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-11-30T01:24:55+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc: Change in #:nodoc: behaviour?


On Nov 29, 2004, at 9:30, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> Unfortunately, for those of us who are not in a position to be able to
> compile versions for ourselves, that's not always easy.

I understand that, and I apologize for the inconvenience. But RDoc is 
now the same as any other standard Ruby library in that fixes are made 
in the Ruby source tree.

James Britt:

> Is there a list of fixed bugs, so that one can know that the problem 
> has been addressed before reporting it?

As with everything else in the standard Ruby distribution, I update the 
Changelog whenever I make changes.

Gavin Sinclair:

> It would be nice to find a solution to this.  First thing that comes
> to mind: a project that makes the latest RDoc code available as a gem,
> which installs under a different name than "rdoc", so it doesn't
> clash.

It'd be great if someone had the time to do this.

But then again, you could argue that the same should apply to the 
interpreter itself---someone finds a bug, then they should be able to 
get a fixed version of the interpreter without having to download from 
the CVS and build...  So perhaps this gem should be a complete Ruby 
system (interpreter and libraries).


Cheers

Dave