From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-04-06T10:35:12+09:00
Subject: Etc module not available in Ruby on Win (non cygwin)


This is sort of an FYI and a "How can we replace the missing 
functionality?"  post.

Someone was using TaskMaster on Win2k with Ruby compiled with MSVC and 
they were getting error messages from the line that require'd 'etc'.
So we figured out that there is no Etc module in the Windows version of 
Ruby (unless you use cygwin).  I was using Etc.getlogin, but it won't work 
on Win Ruby.

Any ideas for replacing the missing Etc module on Windows? (or maybe 
better yet, maybe a module called WinSysInfo or some such since most of 
the functions in Etc don't make sense in a Windows environment).
Or maybe even a SysInfo module that has a set of methods that get mapped 
to the correct underlying OS calls depending on which OS you're running 
on.

On Unix:
SysInfo.getlogin -> Etc.getlogin

On Windows:
SysInfo.getlogin -> Win32API(...whatever will give us the current 
login...)

Other things like free disk space, processor info, etc could be in 
SysInfo.

Other ideas?

Phil