From: "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T06:53:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, 8:10:19 AM, Chad wrote:
>
> > Forgive me if this has been covered somewhere else in this thread (big
> > thread), but the CPAN-ish thing is being worked on and is called RubyGems.
> > Recursive download/installation currently works.  You can get more info at
> > http://rubygems.rubyforge.org.
>
> Furthermore, RDoc is the perldoc semi-equivalent, and the new
> generation of RDoc (in the works) adds the following benefits:
>  - viewable via command-line (ri)
>  - installable to system-wide location for easy reference
>
> RubyGems also enables the "installation" of generated documentation.
>
> So it's all starting to come together.

This is definitely good to hear.  I've seen mentions of most of it, but
I'd not seen it clearly discussed in one place.  Could this all be placed
in the FAQ?  There's already a comparison to python in there; this would
fit well under a comparison with perl, even though it's a comparison of
things that lie outside of the language itself.

Luke

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