From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T11:16:02+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get ri/rdoc working for 1.8.1 on Windows?


On Apr 21, 2004, at 18:45, Jos Backus wrote:

> Perhaps Lothar meant to say that rdoc in the 1.8.1 distribution 
> doesn't work,
> and that he is wondering whether anybody has tried to run the latest 
> rdoc from
> CVS against a stock 1.8.1 install because the latest rdoc appears to 
> work
> fine?

The latest RDoc is part of the Ruby source distribution, and so you'd 
have a newer version of Ruby lying around anyway... :)

> It sure would be nice to see 1.8.2 be released soon, as this would 
> give us
> working online documentation (using rdoc/ri) on Unix at least.  
> rdoc/ri in
> 1.8.1 is not even working there.

I'm not sure I understand this. On Unix, 1.8.1 and 1.9 both work just 
fine: I use them every day. You just grab the latest, configure and 
make install as normal, and RDoc is automatically run and the 
documentation built.

This is very frustrating for me. I understand there are problems with 
how the Windows installer was built, and it looks like Curt is going to 
sort that out. Of the stuff in my control, what needs to be done to get 
rdoc/ri working for folks who can't currently use it?


Cheers

Dave