[racket] Unified docs on info.rkt?

FWIW, I would love for someone to fix it.

Indeed, until there is a more general thing, I think that

 a) we should have multiple examples
 b) the by-hand cross-link patterns should be put into the style guide.

Robby

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:37 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
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> On Oct 6, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:
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>> Despite the Racket documentation being a quite a bit better than
>> before, it still needs work.  I was having a hard time finding the
>> documentation for info.rkt files this afternoon.  info.rkt is funny
>> because it's a fairly generic file format, and other parts of Racket
>> take advantage of its open file format.  The documentation to
>> info.rkt, consequently, is really spread out across several sections.
>>
>> I was trying to figure out how to get a collection's compilation to
>> ignore certain directories.  I know I'd done this in the past, but I
>> was blanking out on the exact name and type of the info.rkt
>> configuration option.  As an experiment, I put myself in the mindset
>> of someone who doesn't yet know the system, to see if I could find it
>> anyway.
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> I'm not sure I would generalize, here.  This *exact example* has gotten me about six times. I think we need a page that summarizes these, or at least add some cross-links to connect these pages.
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> The only reason I haven't reported this several times already is that I feel like I should just fix it myself.
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> John
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