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Author Re: ri - what does it know?
Lothar Scholz

2005-08-28, 6:59 pm

Hello Eric,

EH> On 23 Aug 2005, at 13:24, Mark Volkmann wrote:
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EH> ri should know about just about everything in the core. It should
EH> know about all extensions mentioned in ext/.document, and all
EH> standard library classes/modules mentioned in lib/.document in the
EH> source.

No. At least not the ri database that comes with the one-click-installer.
It only nows everything (at least what is documented) inside ruby.exe

EH> Currently, rubygems does not generate ri information. It is
EH> commented out.

Which is good, because ri has a broken design that does not fullfill with
the purpose of a package manager. It would otherwise slowly fill your
system with garbage. I worked around that in ArachnoRuby, but it
should be fixed in "rdoc.rb".


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