From: "Zachary P. Landau" <kapheine@...>
Date: 2003-10-02T04:40:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Include CONFIG::Config['rubydocdir'] in rbconfig.rb


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> |Summary: if Ruby had a standard documentation directory, then
> |installers could install documentation there.  A typical Ruby
> |installation does contain documentation in a sensible place, but this
> |location is not retrievable through the normal Config['xyz']
> |mechanism.
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> Currently it does not have one.  Where do you think it should be, if
> Ruby should have a standard documentation directory.  And how far
> should it cover?  Libraries?  Applications?

The documentation dir should probably only handle libraries. With
applications, it shouldn't matter what language they are written in, so
the documentation should go in the same place as any other program
documentation. You wouldn't have /usr/share/doc/c/gawk/README or
something like that.

Libraries are used when people are writing something in the same
programming language, so it should make sense to put those in something
like /usr/share/doc/ruby/ruby-gtk2/README.

So maybe we want Config['libdocs'] or something that shows it is for
ruby libraries and applications.=20

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Zachary P. Landau <kapheine@hypa.net>
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