On Thursday 08 July 2004 15:46, James Britt wrote:
> Dave Thomas wrote:
> > On Jul 8, 2004, at 14:40, James Britt wrote:
> >> I ran make install-doc.
> >> ri worked.
> >>
> >> Not the most obvious path for me, but there you go.
> >
> > Perhaps you  might mention that over on ruby-core...
>
> I just might.  I believe there was previous discussion there on whether
> rdocs/ri should be installed by default or not; I'd vote Yes (and may
> have even said so at the time), but I don't recall what the counter
> arguments were.

Why not split Ruby into two distributions, the core Ruby binaries and 
libraries needed to run Ruby scripts, and a developer distribution which 
contains irb, ri, rdocs and anything else a Ruby developer would need.

	Sean O'Dell