From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-12-01T23:22:03+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc included in standard distribution?

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

# On Sunday, November 30, 2003, 9:51:38 PM, Yukihiro wrote:
# 
# > Hi,
# 
# > In message "Re: rdoc included in standard distribution?"
# >     on 03/11/30, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:
# 
# > |What do I need to do? RDoc hasn't changed substantially in a while, and 
# > |unless there are problems folks aren't posting to SourceForge, I 
# > |believe it's as ready as it will ever be :)
# 
# > Commit the required library to /lib and rdoc itself to /bin.
# > I believe you have CVS commit account.
# 
# While I want to see rdoc in the standard library, I find it strange
# that it should occupy space in the lib directory.  Unless I'm
# mistaken, it's not really a library; rather an application.
# 
# Still, I guess my perception could change.  One day we'll see people
# doing this:
# 
#   require 'rdoc'
# 
#   rdoc = RDoc.new(template, title, ....)
#   rdoc.generate(*files)
# 
# instead of
# 
#   command = "rdoc -T #{template} --title #{title} ..."]
#   system command
# 


I actually know of at least 4 applications that use RDoc in this way 
already.  So I'd say it makes sense to put in lib.

Chad