From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2005-10-02T07:41:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Gems is over engineered On 10/1/05, Jay Levitt wrote: > 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. Yeah, but that's platform dependent. Symlink solutions aren't necessary. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca