Re: Installing Ruby from Source, README needs the command 'make install-doc' documented

James Britt <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:11:41 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation
Organization ruby-doc.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Micah Cochran wrote:
> 	I sent the following email to the Ruby Talk mailing list on
> September 22, 2006, but I never got a response. 
> 

> ... 
> 	My only request is to include this command in the README file that
> is included with the source distribution in a section immediately after the
> installation portion of this document. I make this request is so that
> everyone who is using ruby in a development environment--myself
> included--won't forget this helpful step.
> 

Not a bad suggestion.   I've gotten into the habit of running
  ./configure --help

whenever installation anything from source to see what the defaults are, 
but it's easy to miss things.  I would prefer that the docs were 
installed by default; I'd be surprised if a large number of people 
install Ruby but skip the docs.

> Please let me know what I need to do or who I need to contact in order to
> get this into the README file.


I believe that would have to be discussed on the ruby-core list.

James