Feature #6388: Convert README to README.rdoc with formatting

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: 2.0.0

[zzak (zzak _)]

I've moved the current README into README.rdoc and reformatted using rdoc markup. See attached patch.

[zzak (zzak _)]

• File 00021-README-to-rdoc.patch 00021-README-to-rdoc.patch added

Changed some of the code formatting in the rdoc markup.

[zzak (zzak _)]

• File 0003-READMEja-to-rdoc.patch 0003-READMEja-to-rdoc.patch added

I've added another patch to convert README.ja to rdoc.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Feature

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r35518.
Zachary, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• README, README.ja: reformatted using rdoc markup. based on the
  patches by zzak (Zachary Scott) in [Feature #6388].
• README, README.ja: updated the author's mail address.

[zzak (zzak _)]

Hi Nobu, Thanks for the merge!

Is there a reason to remove the '.rdoc' extensions?

As you can see[1], github will only parse the markdown of the README's extension.

1: http://github.com/ruby/ruby#readme

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

It doesn't seem necessary, because you hadn't mentioned about github at all.

Github's RDoc parser seems dealing with inline markups in multibyte contents differently than the bundled one.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

I'm neutral to change the names, and will rename them if no objections.
Any thoughts?

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

Hello,

nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote:

I'm neutral to change the names, and will rename them if no objections.
Any thoughts?

I don't like it very much.

README is not for github, but for newbie.
README extensions often represent platform in Unix culture.
".rdoc" may confuse users familiar with Unix but unfamiliar
with Ruby's toolchain.

$ ls perl-5.14.2/README*
perl-5.14.2/README perl-5.14.2/README.hurd perl-5.14.2/README.plan9
perl-5.14.2/README.aix perl-5.14.2/README.irix perl-5.14.2/README.qnx
perl-5.14.2/README.amiga perl-5.14.2/README.jp perl-5.14.2/README.riscos
perl-5.14.2/README.beos perl-5.14.2/README.ko perl-5.14.2/README.solaris
perl-5.14.2/README.bs2000 perl-5.14.2/README.linux perl-5.14.2/README.symbian
perl-5.14.2/README.ce perl-5.14.2/README.macos perl-5.14.2/README.tru64
perl-5.14.2/README.cn perl-5.14.2/README.macosx perl-5.14.2/README.tw
perl-5.14.2/README.cygwin perl-5.14.2/README.micro perl-5.14.2/README.uts
perl-5.14.2/README.dgux perl-5.14.2/README.mpeix perl-5.14.2/README.vmesa
perl-5.14.2/README.dos perl-5.14.2/README.netware perl-5.14.2/README.vms
perl-5.14.2/README.epoc perl-5.14.2/README.openbsd perl-5.14.2/README.vos
perl-5.14.2/README.freebsd perl-5.14.2/README.os2 perl-5.14.2/README.win32
perl-5.14.2/README.haiku perl-5.14.2/README.os390
perl-5.14.2/README.hpux perl-5.14.2/README.os400

Above all, "README.rdoc" is not cool based on my subjective
impression.
It can be configurable on github side, of course?

--
Yusuke Endoh [e-mail]

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

Since github is not the primary place people go to learn about ruby I think it is OK to keep "README" with no extension.