From: Jay Levitt Date: 2005-10-02T05:41:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Gems is over engineered In article <1128184557.633795.12190@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, transfire@gmail.com says... > Debian deals with the same issue by using symlinks. ruby -> > ruby1.8 for example. Its' a nicer solution. But Gems can't use that > b/c it needs to be cross-platform and Windows does't have symlinks. So > were back to convention. Does Gems support Win95/98/ME? Windows 2000 and on DO have symlinks, via NTFS's native "reparse points"; there's just no way to create them with the existing command shell. SysInternals's "junction" tool works very nicely, and IIRC there's source available for it. I've been using them for years with no problems - in fact, they're more transparent to apps than symlinks are. -- Jay Levitt | Wellesley, MA | I feel calm. I feel ready. I can only Faster: jay at jay dot fm | conclude that's because I don't have a http://www.jay.fm | full grasp of the situation. - Mark Adler