From: pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
Date: 2009-03-11T01:53:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Shell scripting & Windows/Linux Paths

Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@talkhouse.com> writes:
>> 2009/3/10 Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@talkhouse.com>:
>>> What's the best way to launch executables with Ruby in a way that  
>>> paths and
>>> other command line parameters work on both Windows and Linux?
> Yes, I'm mostly concerned with paths.   I'd like to write everything  
> in Unix style and just have it  automatically converted somehow so  
> everything stays relatively legible.

IMO, the best way is not to use any literal path.

Keep a map of executable => path that you load at startup from a
different configuration file (or source) depending on whether you run
on Microsoft Windows or on Unix.  Actually this would even allow you
to adapt your program to different Unix systems, with different
"standard" places for the various executables.

If you try that, you will see that it gives you some level of
abstraction in the management of pathnames so  your program becomes
even clearer.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__