From: Philipp Meier <meier@...>
Date: 2002-09-04T00:54:06+09:00
Subject: Re: suggestions to the Ruby community


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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 12:38:13AM +0900, nico wrote:
> On September 3, 2002 10:44 am, David Douthitt wrote:
>=20
> > To docs should be in man pages - not in info format (like GNU), not per=
ldoc
> > format, not in a "convertable" format - not even in bundled html pages.=
=20
> > Every system you find will have man; most don't have lynx or info or
> > rdtool, etc.
>=20
> You're assuming every system in existence (or every system that runs ruby=
) is=20
> UNIX or a clone of it. It would be nice if you could choose which type of=
=20
> documentation formats you want to be generated at compile time with ruby,=
=20
> which means one of the doc making tools would have to be included with it.

+1 by me. I'd like to have a something like ri or perldoc where i can quick=
ly
lookup a methods documentation like this

prompt> ri My::Module::Class.function

I'd like to have the documentation readily accessible as manpages for
unix and like javadoc for browsing on windows and to work into a new
api.

-billy.

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