From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-08-23T23:06:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with Rake and FileList


> * Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> [2004-08-23 20:38:38 +0900]:
>> FileList use a "lazy load" technique where we don't calculate the exact

jim@freeze.org said:
> I think the problem is that it is 'too lazy' on OS X.
>
> Here is the same rake file, two different OS's.
[...]
> Linux:
>    ruby -v; rake -V; rake
>    rake, version 0.4.4
>    ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-linux-gnu]
>    (in /home/jfn/tmp)
>    ["Rakefile"]
>
> OS X:
>    ruby -v; rake -V; rake
>    rake, version 0.4.4
>    ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [powerpc-darwin]
>    (in /home/jfn/tmp)
>    []

Or the difference could be 1.8.0 vs 1.8.1.  If the 1.8.0 version of
inspect invokes any array-specific methods (and the 1.8.1 version
doesn't), then that is enough to trigger resolution.  (I don't have a copy
of 1.8.0 handy to test this).

I've tried your simple rakefile on Linux and windows and aways get the
same results as your OSX example.

BTW, I've looked at the FileList code.  Any Array-specific method will
trigger resolution.  I also add "to_s" to the list of trigger methods.  I
will add "inspect" to this list as well.

My question is: are there any other methods in Kernel in addition to to_s
and inspect that should trigger resolution?

I'll try to get 0.4.5 out tonight with these changes.

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