From: Oliver <python152@...>
Date: 2006-11-03T03:15:12+09:00
Subject: Re: file size revisit

Dan -

First of all, thanks for fixing this.

A general comment on this issue is: why in Ruby, the basic operation on
files needs special treatment, and short of being cross-platform? If I
am invoking a exotic feature that is windows only, import a win32
module would make more sense to me.

In Python, the operation is uniform cross the platform
import os.path
os.path.getsize("filename")

maybe many folks probably won't agree this, but I tend to regard the
core File.size() won't work with larger file on windows a bug, though a
minor one.

Best,
Oliver




On Nov 2, 12:54 pm, "Daniel Berger" <djber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel Berger wrote:<snip>
>
> > I didn't reallize lstat was implemented on Windows.  I'm guessing it's
> > an alias, so I'll need to check the source.  But, that's definitely a
> > bug in win32-file (or rather, win32-file-stat).
>
> > I'll get this fixed and put out a release asap.Ok, fixed in CVS.  I'll have a release out tonight.  If you want the
> fix now, just open up win32/file.rb and add this:
>
> def self.lstat(file)
>    File::Stat.new(file)
> end
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan