From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T06:15:15+09:00
Subject: Re: suggestions to the Ruby community

"David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@cuna.coop> writes:

> I would encourage not using a Wiki - for these reasons:

Although I agree that wikis are not the best medium for
documentation...

> 
> * Requires yet another password, login, signup, address, name, ...

The RubyGarden wiki is open to all with no access control.

> * Can't be downloaded and set up like HTML pages (like the ruby-man
>   and ruby-ref, which are wonderful!)

That would be trivial to set up (and I'm guessing that wget would
probably already handle it, although you'd have to ignore the 'Edit'
link)

> * Can't be printed out for hard copy

True