Jeff - save me some time if you have a quick answer, otherwise I''ll google about a bit more for clues. Trying to run masterview_plugin:package which builds zip/tgz files breaks on windows when the rake task tries to shell out to run tar, which ain''t there on win32. I took a quick look at minitar per your commented-out entries in the rakefile: #require ''archive/tar/minitar'' #require ''zlib'' You know any more about minitar or what''s needed to get it hooked into rake for win32 tar''ing? Couldn''t find any obvious refs in first quick look in the rake impl''s and docs; only other google tip so far was "install cygwin" [bah, i''d rather get my new suse linux dual boot loaded up with ruby at that point and run builds on my backup machine] ~ Deb
Jeff Barczewski
2006-Jun-14 16:33 UTC
[Masterview-devel] Quick question about package building
I wish I knew more about minitar and such. I just started from what others had done and it worked. I hadn''t tried the build on win32 though. It is sad that many of these tools aren''t there. Maybe we can use a different package to do the tar''ing, something that is both *nix and win32 friendly? On 6/14/06, Deb Lewis <djlewis at acm.org> wrote:> > Jeff - save me some time if you have a quick answer, otherwise I''ll google > about a bit more for clues. > > Trying to run masterview_plugin:package which builds zip/tgz files breaks > on > windows when the rake task tries to shell out to run tar, which ain''t > there > on win32. > > I took a quick look at minitar per your commented-out entries in the > rakefile: > > #require ''archive/tar/minitar'' > #require ''zlib'' > > You know any more about minitar or what''s needed to get it hooked into > rake > for win32 tar''ing? Couldn''t find any obvious refs in first quick look in > the rake impl''s and docs; only other google tip so far was "install > cygwin" > [bah, i''d rather get my new suse linux dual boot loaded up with ruby at > that > point and run builds on my backup machine] > > ~ Deb > > > _______________________________________________ > Masterview-devel mailing list > Masterview-devel at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/masterview-devel >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/masterview-devel/attachments/20060614/ab8f81e4/attachment.htm
Jeff - ok, don''t worry about it, I''ll chase at some point. For now, I can build gem packages and that was what I mostly need in order to do some additional install testing on the new initializer mechanisms. You''ll just have to continue to be the one and only release-build guy for the moment. RE: sad that Windows lacks tar, etc IMHO [ha], MS should be deeply embarassed that despite decades of proven value of unix command shells, Windows has... the brain-damaged DOS box. At the PDC last fall, they proudly announced they''re finally going to address this in Vista (but only if you buy VS or MSDN subscription, wasn''t clear that they intended to include the new shell scripting capability in the main Vista product). amazing. ~ Deb _____ From: Jeff Barczewski [mailto:jeff.barczewski at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:33 AM To: djlewis at acm.org; masterview-devel at rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Masterview-devel] Quick question about package building I wish I knew more about minitar and such. I just started from what others had done and it worked. I hadn''t tried the build on win32 though. It is sad that many of these tools aren''t there. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/masterview-devel/attachments/20060614/235a3ba3/attachment.htm