From: Justin Johnson <justinjohnson@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T02:32:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Path Separator and Windows

Regardless of the history I am still of the opinion that something 
should change.  From this thread it seems that Ruby may have chosen to 
use / everywhere to keep things consistent.  Can anyone confirm that 
this really is the decision?  If so, it presents the following problems 
for Windows users.

1) When a program displays paths back to users they all use / instead of 
\ which isn't consistent with how the OS presents the paths to the user.
2) Trying to run a program in backticks for example with the paths using 
/ fails.

I think a reasonable solution would be to allow the programmer to 
configure how Ruby will behave, for example by allowing them to change a 
global variable for the path separator.  I figured this would be doable 
but haven't found a way to do so yet.  I also still think it makes more 
sense to default to the line separater the OS uses, which is \ for 
Windows regardless of what the API allows.

Anyone else agree with me on this?  I'm not just complaining here.  I'd 
like to see Ruby improve but I want to make sure I'm not missing 
something obvious.

Thanks for all the feedback.
Justin

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