On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 05:43:57 +0900
> From: Dave Thomas <dave / pragprog.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Subject: Re: Changes to "Programming Ruby" book for 1.8.x
> 
> 
> On Jan 30, 2004, at 14:29, Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
> > Since the text to Dave & Andy's "Programming Ruby" book is freely
> > available, is anyone making changes to reflect changes in Ruby 1.8.x?
> >
> > The RubyGarden wiki lists ChangesToProgrammingRuby at:
> > http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?ChangesToProgrammingRuby
> >
> > Is anyone actually implementing these changes and if so is there a
> > version online anywhere that reflects these changes?  Maybe there
> > could be a CVS repository where the text is kept and people could be
> > allowed to submit updates?
> 
> I've updated the built-ins (that's where all the new ri stuff came 
> from). I've updated the tutorial stuff too. I'm currently stumped about 
> what to do with the explosion in the supplied libraries in lib and 
> ext/.


  RCR = <<-txt
    std extentions will not be included in the dist w/o rdoc compatible
    doccumentation.
  txt

this doesn't really seem too unreasonable does it ??

-a
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