From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-07T00:39:30+09:00
Subject: Re: traits question

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Sean O'Halpin wrote:

>> neither.  the link exists in the lib directory when i tar up the package.
>> what does it unpack as then?
>
> Just the traits-0.7.0.rb file.
>
> The traits.rb link isn't visible in Winzip (which I and I guess most
> Windows users will be using to unpack tars). Actually, it's pretty
> smart of Winzip to know that softlinks won't work.
>
> tar.exe (from the UnixWin32 project on SourceForge) lists trait.rb but
> fails when you try to extract it. (It attempts to do a hardlink but
> fails).
>
> I reckon the best way to handle this on Windows would be to copy the
> file (and overwrite anything there with the same name). I'd be chary
> about using hard links - they are available but a foreign concept to
> most Windows users.

cool.  i tried cygwin and winrar and they both handle the link properly while
unpacking and the install works.

basically i need to tweak the install.rb script to do

   versioned = Dir[ 'lib/*-[0-9].[0-9].[0-9].rb' ]

   versioned.each{ |v| FileUtils::copy(v, v.gsub(%r/-\d+\.\d+\.\d+/,'')) }

and it should work.

i'll hack a fix and let you guys test....  gimmee 10 minutes or so.

-a
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