From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-20T00:40:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing portable Ruby

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Christoph Neubauer wrote:

> If I need hints for writing portable Perl, I do ...
>
>> perldoc perlport
>
> ...  and get a lot of information about ...
>
> newlines, ...
> files and filesystems, ...
> interprocess communications, ...
> different implementation of  Perl functions on various platforms, ...
>
> What do I have to do, to get similar information for writing portable Ruby ?
>
> Any hints welcome !
> Chris

well, considering portable means windows + every_thing_nix these days i'd
start by reviewing the win32 project.  by seeing which things are provided
you'll be able to see areas where windows is either lacking, has different
functionality, or provides additional functionality.  it's those areas where
one need to do some os abstraction.

-a
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