From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T07:59:14+09:00
Subject: Re: rake broken on windows?

Hi,

At Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:20:22 +0900,
Daniel Berger wrote in [ruby-talk:220104]:
> Maybe I should talk to Jim about this.  One solution might be to use
> File.short_path (in the win32-file package):
> 
> irb(main):001:0> require 'win32/file'
> irb(main):002:0> File.short_path("C:\\Documents and Settings")
> => "DOCUME~1"

Oops, how ugly.

And it can occur on other platforms.  Is there any reason that
rake can't use system(*args) rather than system(args.join(" "))?

-- 
Nobu Nakada