From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-02-05T03:33:11+09:00
Subject: Re: cross platform method to obtain disk usage

Daniel Berger wrote:

> I've tested it on FreeBSD and HP-UX as well.
> 
> No, it doesn't work on Windows.  I've been mulling over a
> win32-filesystem package for win32utils, but I don't know that it's
> realistic to keep a unified API between *nix and Win32.  But, I'll mull
> it over. 

I'd think their should be a unified API in the ruby library for getting 
this information, rather then have two separate methods in potentially 
two separate packages for accessing this information long term depending 
on whether you're on a *nix or windows machine. Let's make this easier 
on the developer, thus making ruby more attractive for developers from 
other languages.

Short term if a method is added to the win32utils then I would think 
that is good to have, but ultimately consistency and transparency to the 
user (developer) would be the ultimate goal. IMO

Zach