On Friday, February 13, 2004, 2:13:56 AM, Hugh wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>> On Friday, February 13, 2004, 1:19:53 AM, Hugh wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Can you remind me where one gets the source from which this is rdoc'd?
> [...]
>> > base. I don't want write access to CVS, I don't know enough not to
>> > accidentally fell the whole tree!
>>
>> Don't worry, Hugh, you can't just get write access any old time anyway
>> :)
> :-)
>>
>> The documentation is derived from the Ruby source code, 'lib' and
>> 'ext' directories, ruby_1_8 branch. To access this, you should use
>> anonymous CVS. I'm pretty sure the instructions are at ruby-lang.org;
>> otherwise let me know and I'll find out for you.
> Oh, OK. I thought we had our own copy so documanetation could be
> changed before being accepted and "set in stone", but this prevents
> duplication, DRY and so forth.
::sigh:: I get enough duplication committing documentation to the
trunk and the 1.8 branch :( (Ah, it's not *too* bad :)
> [...]
> <OT note="well, it's still documentation, but...">
> Incidentally, the page talks about access to 'www' as well as 'src':
> Anyone here allowed to commit to that? The page presently says that
> Dave Thomas is in charge of Rubicon, but he has told me he has
> passed it to Chad Fowler, who tells me Ruby is moving towards a test
> framework integrated within the distribution, so Rubicon will be
> less important with time.
> </OT>
I've never looked at the other repositories, and had long since
forgotten about them. The integrated test framework appears to be
going well; it receives frequent commits. I've never really looked at
it; could be a source of examples for documentation.
Cheers,
Gavin
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