From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-12-19T07:50:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20666] Re: system() issues on Windows

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Jim Weirich <jim.weirich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 17, 2008, at 12:01 AM, James M. Lawrence wrote:
>
>> I put together a spec of my grievances with system() on Windows and
>> made a simple patched implementation,
>
> Since rake depends upon system() to run external commands, these
> inconsistencies on Windows can be a big frustration to people trying to run
> a Rakefile on multiple systems.
>

I agree with Jim on this subject.

I'm about to run the spec suite provided by James on both VC6, MinGW
builds for Windows and compare the results for Ruby on Linux.

I believe the fix in Ruby C code that deals with these nuances should be ironed.

James: what about another look into rubyspec for system and backtick specs?

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Luis Lavena
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
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