From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-10-01T14:30:54-07:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Include CONFIG::Config['rubydocdir'] in rbconfig.rb


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Ara.T.Howard (ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov) wrote:

> IMHO, it would be very, very, very, cool if, for example, each
> package had it's own rdoc directory which lived _along_side_ the
> package in site_ruby

This mixes libs and doc, which I feel is very, very bad.

If you want to save space, you have to do extra tedious work to snip out
the rdoc directories, which is not a problem if you have them sitting
with the rest of the system docs.  Furthermore, it violates principles
of good design.  Nothing else is storing documentation in your lib
directories, so why should Ruby?  lib is for libraries, let's keep it
that way.

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