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Re: Some more?: msg#00017

Subject: Re: Some more?
On 8/21/05, James Britt <jbritt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My current thinking is to alter the rdoc template so that core and
> stdlib API rdoc content pages have a means for transcluding plain old
> wiki content, most likely by using some AJAXy thing.  Fetch the matching
> wiki page and insert the wiki page text.
> 
> Regenerating docs from updated source code won't lose comments.
> 
> Comments can be controlled though standard wiki tricks without having to
> worry about being couple to the Ruby source.
> 
> It seems a reasonable, quasi-low-tech way to get nice features.  No
> complex engineering.
> 
> Folks with JavaScript turned off can see a link to the corresponding
> wiki comment page.
> 
> It may also make things easier to migrate if and when someone comes up
> with a better rdoc template than the current multi-window framed thing
> 
> Thoughts?

The easiest way which will work Right Now without cripping future
endeavours is definitely the way to go!




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