On Mar 7, 2008, at 22:20 PM, Trans wrote:
> [...] Well beyond that it prevents us from all forms of  
> customization of our docs, from simply using a different template to  
> using a system other then rdoc altogether. The current design  
> completely constrains our documentation freedom.

The current design also gives consistency of documentation across all  
installed gems, which has incredible value by itself.

> A far better solution is simply to designate a conventional location
> for html api docs, say doc/html-api/ or something like that, and just
> have gem server look for them there.

This is a good idea as an additional feature.

> For those who would rather generate docs then redistribute them (to  
> save package size?)  then provide a ruby script that does it, and  
> the gemspec can have a field
> to designate that, which it can then run on install. That's much  
> simpler solution and much more powerful to boot.

RubyGems doesn't have a post-install script on purpose.
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