From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2002-09-06T03:28:35+09:00
Subject: Re: suggestions to the Ruby community

In article <02c901c254f5$7a04c990$f51032d2@nosedog>, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> The reasons for using POD are good, but here are the cons:
>  - relying on Perl installation is not good (as above)
>  - porting to Ruby is questionable - need to keep up-to-date
>  - we already have doc formats in Ruby; let's evolve them and
>    "almost port" POD if necessary (I don't even know what in
>    particular is so great about it).
> 
> I think it's time we started a new thread; even better, a new ML!

Does ML mean mailing list or markup language here?

If you're looking for a non-POD markup then SDF may be worth a look.
http://www.xpenguin.biz/download/sdf/doc/ and
http://www.xpenguin.biz/download/sdf/doc/paper/sdfintro.html are good
starting points.

I'm not advocating anything here, merely pointing out that others have
been here before...

Mike

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