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Re: ri doesn't know about __FILE__: msg#00037

Subject: Re: ri doesn't know about __FILE__
On Thursday, March 10, 2005, 4:50:21 AM, Hugh wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, James Britt wrote:

>> Austin Ziegler wrote:
>>> That is, if you run the ri documentation on Diff::LCS, because
>>> Diff::LCS offers the ability to extend Array, it modifies the
>>> documentation for Array in ri.
>>
>> Right, and this is another example of ri being broken. It was not meant to
>> manage anything other than the core libs.  The first version assumed
>> hand-crafted content.  The next (current) version was able to feed off of of
>> rdoc, but still has no way to deal intelligently with confilcits with the
>> core lib files.  I;'ve run rdoc/ri on the std lib, and t just hses things.
>> This is wrong.

> Is anyone still working on rj?

> http://rjay.rubyforge.org/

> It was intended to be ri.succ, hence the name.   It doesn't seem to have
> been touched for a year...

No, I didn't see a need for it after 2-gen RI.  Still don't :)

Gavin






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