From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-15T07:02:42+09:00
Subject: Re: directory_watcher 0.1.1

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On Nov 13, 2006, at 4:53 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Eric Hodel wrote:
>> 
>>> Or just use Hoe and run rake release.  Drops an email.txt ready for 
>>> pasting into your email client of choice.
>> 
>> okay - __that__ is cool!
>> 
>> can you specify stdout?
>> 
>>   rake release |mail -s traits ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>
> No.  Also, the first line of email.txt is the subject.
>
>> that would make those of us that are truely lazy release like wildfire.
>
> A send_email task wouldn't work cross-platform.  Not everybody's machines are 
> correctly set up to send email.

sure, but

   cmd = "rake release|mail -s #{ the_subject } ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org"

   system cmd or warn "you system is wonky"

might be ok ;-)

-a
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