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RI::Paths

Encapsulate all the strangeness to do with finding out where to find RDoc files

We basically deal with three directories:

  1. The 'system' documentation directory, which holds the documentation distributed with Ruby, and which is managed by the Ruby install process

  2. The 'site' directory, which contains site-wide documentation added locally.

  3. The 'user' documentation directory, stored under the user's own home directory.

There's contention about all this, but for now:

system

$datadir/ri/<ver>/system/…

site

$datadir/ri/<ver>/site/…

user

~/.rdoc