From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-10-06T15:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: stdlib doc - rd2

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

gavin-

i am slammed for the next month - but if there are specifice things i could
contribute to this end, i would like to.

-a

> On Monday, October 6, 2003, 1:38:10 AM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
> > rubyists-
>
> > so, it seems that all the docs in ruby-1.8.0 are in rd format.  fine with me.
> > has anyone got a script out there to generate docs for all the dist files, not
> > that it will be too hard but...  i suppose a bettter question is: are the docs
> > downloadable anywhere?
>
> If you're talking about the documentation for library files, then it's
> a mix.  Some are in RD format, some are in RDoc format, and some are
> not documented.  A couple of us are trying to get them all into RDoc
> format.
>
> We've done enough of them now that it's worth pausing to make them
> downloadable.  That's what the recently-created stdlib-doc project is
> for.  There's nothing in the CVS at the moment, but if anyone wants to
> help generate a web page that contains all the available
> documentation, I'd really appreciate it.
>
> What I'm aiming for is a web page that looks like a normal RDoc
> webpage, except that there's an extra frame on the left side that
> lists all the packages (benchmark, cgi, complex, csv, ...).  When you
> click one of those, the rest of the page shows the RDoc for that
> package.
>
> Also, there should be a "Conslidated" link that shows RDoc for all
> packages combined.
>
> When I get the project infrastructure set up, I'll put a task to this
> effect on RubyForge and hope someone bites.
>
> > [...]
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>
>
>

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