Quoting jbritt@xxxxxxxxxxxx, on Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:16:08PM -0700:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> >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.
Doc patches are like a lot of bug fixes, they apply to old versions.
There are critical doc patches, that probably apply right back to v1.6.
This means that even if you aren't using the head, you may find that the
docs in the head are more complete and useable for you than the docs for
whatever version you actually are using.
> 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.
Is it possible to rebuild the stdlib docs nightly?
The latest version is from early December. A little cron job with an scp
should be enought to get this automated.
Sam
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