From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-03-22T00:46:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows version of Ruby (proposals)

Hi,

At Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:04:55 +0900,
Dave Thomas wrote:
> Does popen work with "w+" in your version of Ruby under Windows?

IIRC, Usa has a patch makes it work, but not merged yet.

> Then, we provide a set of environment support modules for those
> classes that currently contain non-portable methods. We could have
> (for example)
(snip)
> Mix one of these into class File and you'll get all the system
> dependent calls. You'll also be explicitly marking your code as
> non-portable.

Sounds nice.

> I think I'd then take this a step further and add a new method to
> Kernel called 'sysdep'
> 
>    sysdep :win32
>       would be the same as 'require "sysdep_win32"'
> 
>    sysdep :win32, File, Dir
>       would be the same as
> 
>         class File
>            include SysdepFileWin32
>         end
> 
>         class Dir
>            include SysdepDirWin32
>         end

Isn't it enough with `require'?

  require 'sys/win32'		# loads Windows specific
				# modules and mixes-in.

  require 'sys/win32/file'	# file related only.
    class File
      module Win32
      end
      include Win32
    end

-- 
Nobu Nakada