From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29738 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: updating context on Ubuntu 6.06 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:05:17 +0200 Message-ID: <44C873BD.9080808@wxs.nl> References: 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 1153987537 28905 80.91.229.2 (27 Jul 2006 08:05:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 27 10:05:35 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 1G60s7-0003Pp-KM for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:05:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6B61FE4B; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:05:30 +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 05382-01-4; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:05:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95281FE44; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:05:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE501FE44 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:05:23 +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 05382-01-3 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:05:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 63FC21FE31 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:05:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 29080 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:05:20 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) 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:29738 Archived-At: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > How does Windows quoting work? Well, the whole story isn't needed, > but only how would this ruby line > > `kpsewhich --expand-var '$TEXMFLOCAL'` > > differ on Windows relative to Unix? > the problem is that one never knows when the shell does things and when the program does ... so in order to be really sure, we need taco to look into the kpse source to see if ' is handled there (here they are retained) > And the $@ -> "$@" change can be done in the Unix stubs only, so the > change won't affect Windows (which uses .bat files and a different > syntax). > so in texmfstart: f.write("#{program} #{callname} \"$@\"\012") > The other part of the patch was changing system() to be used within an > if instead of a rescue block, and I got the return information about > system() from the Programming Ruby manual online. It didn't say > anything about it applying only to Unix, so that change should be safe > too. > will look 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------