[ANN] open4-0.6.0

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From: ara.t.howard@noaa.gov [mailto:ara.t.howard@noaa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:10 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: [ANN] open4-0.6.0

>> From: ara.t.howard@noaa.gov [mailto:ara.t.howard@noaa.gov]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:56 AM
>> To: ruby-talk ML
>> Subject: [ANN] open4-0.6.0
>>
>>
>>
>> URIS
>>
>> http://rubyforge.org/projects/codeforpeople/
>> http://www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/
>>
>> SYNOPSIS
>>
>> open child process with handles on pid, stdin, stdout, and
>> stderr: manage
>> child processes and their io handles easily.
>
> <snip>
>
> I tried to download the .tgz file from the RubyForge page,
but I get a
> 404. I noticed you have the files layed out somewhat
strangely, with
> 1 file per release it looks like. Maybe that's confusing RubyForge.

hmm. the same script uploaded the gem, which is fine, as the
tgz so i'm not sure what's going on... it looks like it may
be a rubyforge issue - i can't even delete the release with
it throwing errors (missing parameters??)

for now you can grab the tarball/gem here

   http://www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/open4/

sorry for hassle...

> May I suggest putting related files under the same release? Take a
> look at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=735 for what I mean.

isn't that how i have it

   http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1024

Not exactly. For example, I see this under alib:

alib
  0.4.0
     alib-0.4.0.gem
  0.4.0
     alib-0.4.0.tgz

Instead of just:

alib
  0.4.0
     alib-0.4.0.gem
     alib-0.4.0.tgz
  
I didn't even realize that GForge allowed identical release names for
the same package. Maybe this has nothing to do with the problem,
however. I'm just guessing.

<snip>

> Anyway, assuming this works on Windows (it does, right?)
then I might
> have to start a petition to include it in the stdlib. :slight_smile:

errr - no. ;-(

however. i would __love__ to make it so. can i ask you to
have a look at the source and see what it would take to make
work? i'm sure this will mean factoring out fork or
requiring one of you windows libs that do so - and that may be all.

It would require C I'm afraid. The win32-open3 package is one of those
that can't properly be converted to pure Ruby. Perhaps a simple facade
is in order.

next i'll have you help me make posixlock cross-platform :wink:

I haven't looked at the source yet, but I suppose I would start with
Lock() and LockEx():

5/html/wce50lrfLockFile.asp

Regards,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Berger, Daniel wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----

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Not exactly. For example, I see this under alib:

alib
0.4.0
    alib-0.4.0.gem
0.4.0
    alib-0.4.0.tgz

Instead of just:

alib
0.4.0
    alib-0.4.0.gem
    alib-0.4.0.tgz

I didn't even realize that GForge allowed identical release names for
the same package. Maybe this has nothing to do with the problem,
however. I'm just guessing.

ah. didn't know you could do that! in any case i've been doing for a looong
time so i'm sure it's not the problem in this case... i'll look into it for
my rubyforge script.

It would require C I'm afraid. The win32-open3 package is one of those
that can't properly be converted to pure Ruby. Perhaps a simple facade
is in order.

that's ok. a facade would be fine.

next i'll have you help me make posixlock cross-platform :wink:

I haven't looked at the source yet, but I suppose I would start with
Lock() and LockEx():

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcedata
5/html/wce50lrfLockFile.asp

right. i'd like both those and fctnl (posix) based locking wrapped into a
single

   file.lock File::LOCK_EX

interface that mimics File#flock

if you have a minute check out posixlock - it's really short. which win32 lib
   might already have locking builtin?

-a

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On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Berger, Daniel wrote:
--
what science finds to be nonexistent, we must accept as nonexistent; but what
science merely does not find is a completely different matter... it is quite
clear that there are many, many mysterious things.
- h.h. the 14th dalai lama