On Jan 5, 2009, at 20:09 , Suraj Kurapati wrote:

> Although RDoc remains the de-facto API documentation tool for Ruby, it
> is no longer a part of the core Ruby distribution.  It's just another
> project; there's nothing blessed or official about it.

huh? no... not true in the slightest:

> % svn up ; ls -l lib/rdoc*
> At revision 21353.
> -rw-rw-r--  1 ryan  ryan  14089 Oct 25 15:15 lib/rdoc.rb
>
> lib/rdoc:
> total 296
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan   8248 Jun 17  2008 README
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan  24464 Sep 25 00:04 code_objects.rb
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan  12146 Sep 25 00:04 diagram.rb
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan   5179 Feb 18  2008 dot.rb
> drwxrwxr-x  13 ryan  ryan    442 Sep 25 00:04 generator
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan  26794 Sep 25 00:04 generator.rb
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan   2470 Sep 23 00:00 known_classes.rb
> drwxrwxr-x  16 ryan  ryan    544 Sep 25 00:04 markup
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan  10270 Sep 25 00:04 markup.rb
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan  16029 Sep 25 00:04 options.rb
> drwxrwxr-x   8 ryan  ryan    272 Dec 27 12:41 parser
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan   3287 Dec 27 12:41 parser.rb
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan   8291 Sep 25 00:04 rdoc.rb
> drwxrwxr-x  12 ryan  ryan    408 Jan  6 00:57 ri
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan     72 Aug  9 19:38 ri.rb
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan   1959 Aug  9 19:38 stats.rb
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan   1519 Jun 17  2008 template.rb
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ryan  ryan    676 Feb 18  2008 tokenstream.rb