From: Dirk Traulsen <dirk.traulsen@...>
Date: 2007-10-18T03:27:36+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems Beta 0.9.4.5

Am 17 Oct 2007 um 23:41 hat Luis Lavena geschrieben:

> Giles Bowkett wrote:
> >> >> Under WinNT (and _all_ the versions based on that kernel). slash
> >> >> and backslash works the same way for paths:
> >> >
> >> > This is not completely true:
> > 
> >> In the script, the command is already quoted:
> > 
> > I think he's just highlighting that there is a corner case. Sort of
> > a footnote mail.

Correct. Thanks Giles.
 
> Sorry to sound too harsh, was 4am when I wrote that answer. At that
> time my social skills were nil.
> 
> But was a good point.
> 
> When running ruby scripts I'm used to append "ruby" to the command
> line, and not call script.rb directly:
> 
> ruby script/server
> ruby script/generate
> ruby script/spec
> 
> That's why I never found a issue with slashed paths... since Ruby do
> the lifting.

Well, as you said: Ruby itself naturally has no problem with '/' as a 
path separator.
 
> Dirk, please excuse the harsh part of my previous mail.

Thank you for your apology. (This really is a polite list!) I wasn' t 
really offended, as I just wanted to stress the point, that one cannot 
rely on MS Windows to parse '/' ALWAYS correctly. Sometimes, when one 
is lucky, one doesn't have to get burned oneself to learn and 
figuratively I already got burned..

> Regards and thanks for providing feedback on this.

You're welcome.