Misc #13704: [PATCH] Exclude Changelog files from documentation.

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)

[larskanis (Lars Kanis)]

The changelogs are almost 7 MBytes large, so that the ri or rdoc output is even bigger. Therefore the changelogs take almost half of the size of the entire output. However the changelog is not really valuable as part of ri or rdoc, IMHO. It may also slows down searches in rdoc.

See patch here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1592

This issue arose originally at RubyInstaller2 and is patched there: https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller2/commit/ca359aa3d827a3cbba6c715dcaeca0b03b717d62

[larskanis (Lars Kanis)]

• Subject changed from Exclude Changelog files from documentation. to [PATCH] Exclude Changelog files from documentation.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)

I'm not sure that html page of Changelog is not valuable.

Example, permalink of changelog: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.4.0/ChangeLog-2_4_0.html#label-2016-11-07

I'm going to discuss this issue at next Developer Meeting.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Applied in changeset trunk|r59713.

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Exclude Changelog files from documentation.

Patch from larskanis (Lars Kanis).
[Misc #13704][ruby-core:81878]

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

@larskanis (Lars Kanis)

We discussed this issue on Developer Meeting.
There is no objection to your request.
I'm ok to merge your patch.

Thank you.

[larskanis (Lars Kanis)]

Nice, thank you!