From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T12:30:19+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get ri/rdoc working for 1.8.1 on Windows?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 09:49:57AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> Hello Jos,
 
Hallo Lothar,

> JB> Perhaps Lothar meant to say that rdoc in the 1.8.1 distribution doesn't work,
> 
> I have my own 1.8.1 distribution :-)
> So it's not the already mentioned "rdoc.bat" problem.
 
Okay, didn't know that.

> JB> and that he is wondering whether anybody has tried to run the latest rdoc from
> JB> CVS against a stock 1.8.1 install because the latest rdoc appears to work
> JB> fine?
> 
> JB> It sure would be nice to see 1.8.2 be released soon, as this would give us
> JB> working online documentation (using rdoc/ri) on Unix at least.  rdoc/ri in
> JB> 1.8.1 is not even working there.
> 
> Last time i used it it died periodically with some "undefined method" errors.
> I posted this to the Ruby Doc mailing list (and i wasn't the first one)
> but it seems that Dave is not a member of this list
 
I see a different error with the stock 1.8.1, but HEAD works fine here now.

> I tried it again two hours ago and couldn't reproduce it this time.
> Maybe i find some time to look at it tomorrow.
 
Dankesch�n.

Tsch�ss,
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