Re: [FR-devel] problen running fresh freeeride cvs on windows

[Laurent Julliard]

address@hidden wrote:
> sorry for posting from an unregistered mail, but my usual mbox (address@hidden) 
> seems dead today.
> Anyway, I just tried to run the latest cvs with the PragProg installer on 
> winxp, and it gives me this error:
> H:/Documents and Settings/PieroR/Desktop/freeride/redist/rexml/doctype.rb:153: w
> arning: regexp has `]' without escape
> src/emitter.rb:404: warning: character class has `[' without escape
> freeride.rb:71:in `startup': Could not locate directory H:/Documents and Setting
> s/PieroR/Desktop/freeride/H:/Documents and Settings/PieroR/Desktop/freeride/conf
> ig (RuntimeError)
>         from freeride.rb:92
> Ok, the warnings are nothing useful, but it seems the check 
> dir[0..0] != File::SEPARATOR
> won't ever work on windows, cause / == DriveName (A,B,C,D and so on)
> wont'evre be true.
> Anyway, removing all the File.join(File.dirname(File.expand_path($0)), 
> "config"), and leaving just configDir='config' works. why do we need an 
> absolute path?

I have just committed a change to generalize the test on file path to 
determine whether they are absolute or rleative and it should work on 
WIndows as well now. Would you update your working copy and let me 
know if it works ok.

All this extrac ode is necessary top allow the FR code to be installed 
at any place and run ok with out any assumption of what the current 
working directory is. I know it makes the code more complex though....


> Btw, the src/replace stuff is great!
> see ya

Thanks! I Like it too... And I even use it!

Laurent

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