Re: RFC: ruby-debian-doc

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

On 30/12/11 at 01:26 -0200, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> I was inspired by a discussion today on IRC and hacked this tonight:
> 
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-ruby-extras/ruby-debian-doc.git;a=summary
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     # About
> 
>     ruby-debian-doc is an offline alternative to Ruby documentation websites such
>     as http://rubydoc.info/
> 
>     Although rubydoc.info provides a fantastic service to the Ruby community,
>     sometimes we don't have a good internet connection. This package allows you to
>     generate and view documentation from Debian Ruby packages installed on your
>     local Debian system.
> 
>     # Usage
> 
>     $ ruby-debian-doc <package>
> 
>     That's it.
> 
>     After building the documentation, ruby-debian-doc will spawn a web browser to
>     view the documentation by calling `xdg-open`.
> 
> This should avoid the need for including documentation in binary
> packages, saving space in the archive and bandwidth for everyone (the
> gerenerated documentation is usually several times larger than the code
> itself).
> 
> Please let me known what you think. In special, I will appreciate
> suggestions of a better name for the tool.

ruby-doc-debian? :-)

I think the name is OK.

Lucas