Ironruby core - Oct 2007 - Pathname

John Lam wrote:
> after looking at your changes to the Rakefile, most of them fall in the
bucket of using File.join() to concatenate pathname elements rather than using a
canonical delimiter ''\''. I was under the impression that the
pathname2 library would do the correct thing under Linux and convert the
''\'' to ''/''.
I think the intended way to use the library is not to use delimiter at all.

irb(main):001:0> require ''pathname2''
=> true
irb(main):002:0> root = Pathname.new(''root'')
=> "root"
irb(main):003:0> root + ''subdir'' # not
''\subdir''
=> "root/subdir"

-- 
Seo Sanghyeon

Sanghyeon Seo:
> I think the intended way to use the library is not to use delimiter at
> all.
>
> irb(main):001:0> require ''pathname2''
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> root = Pathname.new(''root'') =>
"root"
> irb(main):003:0> root + ''subdir'' # not
''\subdir''
> => "root/subdir"
That''s exactly the insight that I was looking for. Thanks, Seo!

The latest Rakefile that I checked in takes advantage of this observation, so it
*should* just work on Linux now. I''m trying to spin up the Mono vmware
image here to get the ball rolling on my end so that I can do some verification
of this stuff before throwing over the wall.

Thanks,
-John