From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-06-02T09:16:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Manual

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 03:53 +0900, Conor Hunt wrote:
> > I also strongly disagree with this kind of fragmentation - it's just not
> > what we need. It may be my ignorance (Not up on rannotate yet) but I
> > can't see why we need either, given that ruby-doc.org is strong, getting
> > stronger, and has a wiki for comments and so forth. Surely it's best to
> 
> I can offer an opinion on why I think Rannotate helps improve things, 
> but generally they all because Rannotate has put all of the 
> documentation in a database (in a very flexible format)

I had a better look, and I agree that Rannotate has some promising
features, and I'm pretty impressed by the way it works too - I think it
could have a lot to offer as part of ruby-doc.org. I'm still opposed to
having multiple sites purporting to be _The_ ruby manual /
documentation, as with the new site.

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk