From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2005-05-28T17:58:46+09:00
Subject: Re: RI Conceptional Showstopper Bug.


On May 27, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Starting with another problem: Is the RDOC source code really
> unmaintained at the moment, as i read on the ruby-core mailing
> list ? I know Dave Thomas is writting his rails but such an
> important piece of the Ruby environment should be maintained
> by multiple persons.

Theoretically, I am maintaining rdoc. Theory and practice are the  
same, in theory. The amount of time I can dedicate to rdoc depends on  
my workload on ruby2c and metaruby.

> The main conceptional problem behind RI is that it is just a trivial
> flat file "database" without any way to remove items from this  
> "database"
> and without (almost) any relation between individual data files.

Remove? Explain?

> I think that code must be added to keep track of named sets of  
> added files
> instead of simply invoking "rdoc --ri-site" or "rdoc --ri-system".  
> This
> shouldn't be so hard and allows us to remove the data for one gems  
> package/directory.

*nod*

Please file a feature request at: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rdoc/