Re: Documentation roadmap?

Mat Schaffer <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:12:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Aug 25, 2006, at 3:08 AM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On Aug 23, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Mat Schaffer wrote:
>> On Aug 23, 2006, at 12:13 PM, James Britt wrote:
>>> Mat Schaffer wrote:
>>>> Not quite.  More like roadmaps for rdoc features or stdlib-doc  
>>>> features.
>>>> Like the syntax hilighting seems like an rdoc enhancement,  
>>>> whereas a  rake task to automate common documentation tasks  
>>>> seems like a stdlib- doc enhancement.
>>>
>>> I don't think there is such a thing.    I think the plan has  
>>> simply been "Write more docs."
>>> I also don't think there are enhancements planned for rdoc, but  
>>> Eric would know about that.
>>
>> First, anyone know where the official rdoc source is?  I see it in  
>> the ruby tree, but also at sf.net.
>
> The official source ships with Ruby.
>
> There are plans for RDoc improvement, but so far are minor.  Adding  
> the file name where the documentation came from, for example.

If someone came up with a patch to do syntax hilighting on the  
embedded source code, do you think it could have a chance to make it  
into the distribution?
-Mat