From: Luis Lavena Date: 2009-06-24T02:59:01+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:23992] Re: possible bug with windows `` they don't set $? On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Roger Pack wrote: >> Hello Roger, >> >> This was reported while back by RubyInstaller team and fixed prior >> 1.8.6-p287 release. >> >> Can you test out alt_system extension? >> >> http://github.com/quix/alt_system/tree/master > > That does make it work for the rubies I have installed [msvc 1.8, > mingw 1.8, 1.9.1]. > If that helps [so...is this a bug?] So it returns the proper result? Then is a bug *in* Ruby. James Lawrence invested lot of time on alt_system to improve it and fix also Rake system calls. I believe the shelling out in Ruby should be reviewed once again. (this was previously discussed here, at Ruby-core). -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry