From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-11-05T07:08:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:26543] Re: [Bug #2336] pathname compare fails in 	windows

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: [ruby-core:26540] [Bug #2336] pathname compare fails in windows"
> � �on Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:48:46 +0900, Roger Pack <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:
>
> |>> Pathname.new('c:/').relative_path_from Pathname.new('/')
> |ArgumentError: different prefix: "c:/" and "/"
>
> Could you tell me what did you expect from above code?
> For me, Windows ignorant, the error seems natural consequence from
> #relative_path_from.
>

Even Pathname2 [1], which was conceived as more Windows-friendly
version fails with the same error

The problem is that '/' should be considering the same drive unit as
C:/, or should be considering the current one? (Dir.pwd)


[1] http://rubyforge.org/projects/shards/
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