From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-03-04T02:35:18+09:00
Subject: Re: RDoc issue

Michael Davis <mdavis@sevainc.com> writes:

> I grabbed the latest source last night and now I get the following error:
> 
> Directory doc is not a 'rid' directory
> 
> Removing the doc directory was necessary to fix this.

Because it potentially can overwrite so many files, RDoc refuses to
write into an existing output directory unless it thinks it created it
in the first place. To do that, it writes a trivial signature file
when the directory is first created. (The reason I did that is that
during very early testing I actually destroyed some real .html files
by running RDoc in a directory that had a pre-existing doc/
subdirectory).

However, this behavior hasn't changed since the very first public
release, so if you're seeing this repeatedly it means I must have
introduced a bug.


Dave