From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-05-24T22:27:15+09:00
Subject: Re: OS independent scripts, system calls on Windows and Linux

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:


> Open3.popen3 doesn't work on mingw32/mswin32.

Thanks for the info.

All these incompatibility issues are why I want to talk about an RCR.

If there are workarounds reqired to get platform independent scripts, 
like OS- / version- / type of compilation -  sniffing, then I think it 
would be awesome to not require the Ruby user to do that each time, but 
put it into the stdlib or Ruby itself.

I watn a system command mechanism that's *very* OS/build/version/... 
independent, and is *very* safe, stable, simple, quick&easy, yet 
flexible to use.

And yes, I can imagine that there are a lot of annoyances in OSes 
(...like M$Windows) etc. when trying to implement that :)

Tobi


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