From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-05-06T09:25:12+09:00
Subject: Re: FW: [Rake-devel] the origin of the strange bug on win2k

On Thursday 05 May 2005 11:06 am, Florian Gro� wrote:

      ENV['RAKE_TEST_RUBY'] = "123"

> > ruby %{-e "exit $RAKE_TEST_RUBY"} do |ok, status|
> >   assert(!ok)
> >   assert_equal 123, status.exitstatus
> >   block_run = true
> > end
[...]
> Can't you just do "exit ENV['RAKE_TEST_RUBY']"?

You can ... but that won't test the expansion of environment variables in a 
rake process.

I'm thinking that if I want rake to be able to support environment variable 
expansion across all platforms, I will have to expand the variables myself.  
There is just too much difference between systems.

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