Re: ri doesn't know about __FILE__

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:25:37 +1100, Gavin Sinclair
> <gsinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Sorry, Gavin, but I disagree strongly.
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> While it would be nice to see updates to documentation available,
> most documentation *should* be version-locked, because it refers to
> a version of Ruby.
Yes, but if someone updates the docs for Ruby version x, then people 
should be able to get that update without waiting for a new Ruby release.
If someone finds an error in the docs for, say, IO.sync, and they submit 
a fix, how do current Ruby users update their ri data?
So, some way to automatically generate and distribute ri patches might 
be nice.  Or just generate the latest ri data files, dated with the 
change date.  Then automate the download of updates.  Or something.
James

> -austin