Re: Some more?

James Britt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation
Organization ruby-doc.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sy wrote:
> On 8/21/05, James Britt <[email protected]> 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!

That's my thinking, and this seems like a quick win.

James
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