From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-06T22:51:50+09:00
Subject: Re: traits question

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, itsme213 wrote:

> How does one install traits 0.7?
>
> I tried
>  - ruby install.rb
> and
>  - ruby install.rb setup ...(etc.)
>
> No error message in either case, but
>    require 'traits'
> still fails (no such file to load).
>
> Thanks!

hmmm.  it shouldn't.  all my packages install

   name-version.rb

and

   name.rb

so a

   require 'name-version'

gets a specific version and a

   require 'name'

gets whatever the latest.

'name' is always just a link to 'name-version.rb' may the link isn't working
under windows?  when i install it looks like this:

   jib:~/eg/ruby/traits/traits-0.7.0 > ruby install.rb

   lib/traits-0.7.0.rb -> /dmsp/reference/ruby-1.8.1//lib/ruby/site_ruby/traits-0.7.0.rb
   chmod 0644 /dmsp/reference/ruby-1.8.1//lib/ruby/site_ruby/traits-0.7.0.rb

   lib/traits.rb -> /dmsp/reference/ruby-1.8.1//lib/ruby/site_ruby/traits.rb
   chmod 0644 /dmsp/reference/ruby-1.8.1//lib/ruby/site_ruby/traits.rb

so i see both files were copied.  did that happen for you?  if not simply cd
into the lib dir before installing and do

   lib > rm traits.rb
   lib > cp traits-0.7.0.rb traits.rb

and then run 'ruby install.rb'

if that fixes your problem i can assume that links are not working under
windows and i'd like to fix this - probably with a copy hack in the installer.

so, first question, when you unpack the tgz are both files in the lib dir?  if
so are they both regular files?

cheers.

-a
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