From: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>
Date: 2005-01-19T11:51:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] IHelp 0.2.0


On 18.1.2005, at 14:56, Piergiuliano Bossi wrote:

> Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:
>>   If you think it makes the irb startup too slow, load it in a thread:
>>     Thread.new{ require 'ihelp' }
>>   But note that calling help will fail before it's completely loaded.
>
> Sorry, but loading it in a separate thread doesn't work under windows 
> (neither 0.1):
>
> [snip]
> Note that I have only
> 	Thread.new { require 'ihelp' }
> in .irbrc therefore 9 minutes should be enough to load, shouldn't 
> they? :)
>

Yes it definitely should.
I don't know why it doesn't work, sorry :(

I wonder why it doesn't work... Guess I'll boot to windows tomorrow and 
find out.
Better not load it in a thread for the time being ;)

> Btw, which differences since 0.1 apart from setup?
>

Not much external changes, apart from working around that TypeError 
exception ri started raising in 1.8.2.

Refactored code, changed the name, rewrote documentation, added tests, 
fixed bugs.

Now I have 0.3.0 candidate in the darcs repo, which separates the code 
more from the ri cmdline tool and has changable help renderers. I have 
a simple alternative handler there that opens the ruby-doc.org class 
doc in a web browser (on osx), it merely grabs the class name and puts 
it in the url, calls the osx `open`-cmd, and is around 5 lines of code.

--
Ilmari Heikkinen (is going through version numbers way too fast)