Rake::PackageTask

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Does Rake::PackageTask work on Windows?

My attempts to use it have failed so far.

Thanks,
Nick

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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg

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Does Rake::PackageTask work on Windows?

Not out of the box on a One-Click-Installer install. It shells out to
programs tar and zip. If you install Cygwin and put the Cygwin bin
directory in your path it will work.

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Justin Rudd
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No. You can look at any of my projects (Diff::LCS, etc.) to see an
alternative way to generate .tar.gz packages. I have not yet bothered
to make it a task to submit to Jim for inclusion in Rake.

-austin

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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:01:09 +0900, Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@gmail.com> wrote:

Does Rake::PackageTask work on Windows?
My attempts to use it have failed so far.

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Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca

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Justin Rudd wrote:

Does Rake::PackageTask work on Windows?

Not out of the box on a One-Click-Installer install. It shells out to
programs tar and zip. If you install Cygwin and put the Cygwin bin
directory in your path it will work.

I have many unix utilities for Window if anyone would like. They do not require cygwin or mingw. Just message me offlist and I'll send you the zip file.

Zach

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If someone would like to put it together, I would be open to such a patch.

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On Tuesday 21 December 2004 10:32 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote:

No. You can look at any of my projects (Diff::LCS, etc.) to see an
alternative way to generate .tar.gz packages. I have not yet bothered
to make it a task to submit to Jim for inclusion in Rake.

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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)

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Thanks. I'll try that.

Is there any way to get an error message for sh failures in rake?

Thanks,
Nick

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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:24:25 +0900, Justin Rudd <justin.rudd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does Rake::PackageTask work on Windows?

Not out of the box on a One-Click-Installer install. It shells out to
programs tar and zip. If you install Cygwin and put the Cygwin bin
directory in your path it will work.

--
Justin Rudd
http://seagecko.org/thoughts/

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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg

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Zach Dennis wrote:

Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 7:59 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Rake::PackageTask

Justin Rudd wrote:
>>Does Rake::PackageTask work on Windows?
>
>
> Not out of the box on a One-Click-Installer install. It shells out to
> programs tar and zip. If you install Cygwin and put the Cygwin bin
> directory in your path it will work.

I have many unix utilities for Window if anyone would like. They do not
require cygwin or mingw. Just message me offlist and I'll send you the
zip file.

You can also get these and many more unix utilities from the GnuWin32
project on sourceforge:

  GnuWin32 Packages

These are native win32 ports of unix utilities, so cygwin is not required.

Curt

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