From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27703 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texexec Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 23:15:21 +0200 Message-ID: <445E6369.30007@wxs.nl> References: <445A7A23.5070302@wxs.nl> <445E38FA.3000003@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147036532 11091 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2006 21:15:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 21:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun May 07 23:15:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FcqbA-0001hw-TO for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 May 2006 23:15:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C820127DC; Sun, 7 May 2006 23:15:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10976-02-3; Sun, 7 May 2006 23:15:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD27127D5; Sun, 7 May 2006 23:15:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C072F127D5 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 23:15:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10976-02-2 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 23:15:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id E7F48127D0 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 23:15:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 15797 for ; Mon, 08 May 2006 01:15:19 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27703 Archived-At: Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >> Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 5 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any >>>> strong objections to this? >>>> >>>> >>> Is ruby stable with respect to system calls? Is the behaviour >>> consistent on Linux and Windows? Are there active Ruby users on the >>> list who can comment on this? >>> >>> >> we run newtexexec on windows and linux without problems (system calls in >> perl are actually more problematic, or at least in th epast few years >> differences between platforms have given me many headaches) >> >>> I have debugged my recent failure of metapost graphics to using >>> one-click installer (RC2) for windows. From tex.rb >>> >>> report(command) if getvariable('verbose') >>> ok = system(command) >>> if ok && File.appended(mptex, "\\end\n") then >>> >>> >>> This is failing on my system. Can others using windows test this. >>> >>> >> you mean that ok is false? >> > > Yes. For some reason, system(...) returns false whenever there is > in > the command. Maybe, in the future, the functionality of mpto can be > incorporated into (new)texexec. This is not needed right away, as I > managed to get rid of the mess in my system by using cygwin binaries > for ruby. > how about using the code: File.silentdelete(mptex) command = "mpto #{mpname} > #{mptex}" report(command) if getvariable('verbose') ok = system(command) # not "ok && ..." because of potential problem with return code and redirect (>) if FileTest.file?(mptex) && File.appended(mptex, "\\end\n") then so, instead of testing for a return code we test for a file existence > I am still confused on why windows ruby have trouble with cgywin being > present, but I will leave debugging that to future. Right now, > newtexec is working correctly. > well, the problem is probably cygwin being present -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------