From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-03-21T03:09:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Guidelines for cross-platform development?

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:47:38AM -0600, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Sadly, even File.join() doesn't do the right thing on Windows:
> 
>     irb(main):001:0> File.join('C:\src', 'ruby')
>     "C:\\src/ruby"

Hmmm, that's odd.

------------------------------------------------------------- File::join
     File.join( [aString]+> ) -> fileName
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Returns a new string formed by joining the strings using
     File::SEPARATOR (see Table 22.2 on page 308).
        File.join("usr", "mail", "gumby")   #=> "usr/mail/gumby"

Does File.join('src', 'ruby') return a wrong path as well?  What is
the falue of File::SEPARATOR?  I assumed it was '\' under Windows.

Massimiliano