From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-11-28T19:43:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Docs (Was Re: Library directory structure on windows)

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> On Friday, November 28, 2003, 2:11:34 AM, Gavri wrote:
        [...]
> > why don't installers do that? do ruby application installers never
> > copy docs to the ruby/docs folder. should i always do it manually?
> > if so, why?
        [...]
> Documentation is not routinely installed as part of a Ruby package
> installation.  The commonly-used install.rb/setup.rb doesn't do it.  I
> think I emailed the author about it and he replied that there's no
> standard place to install the documentation.  I raised an RCR to

There is also the issue of M17N: which langauge the docs should be
in, how to support many languages, etc.  I don't really have any
good answers to that particular (sub)problem.  I suspect Ruby 2's
emphasis on multinationalization will interact with this problem
space.

I have this odd notion that accommodation of many human languages
fits in with the culture of mutual respect within the ruby
community, but what might be done to support this I don't know.

        Hugh