I wish I knew more about minitar and such. I just started from what others had done and it worked. I hadn't tried the build on win32 though. It is sad that many of these tools aren't there. <br><br>Maybe we can use a different package to do the tar'ing, something that is both *nix and win32 friendly?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Deb Lewis</b> <<a href="mailto:djlewis@acm.org">djlewis@acm.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jeff - save me some time if you have a quick answer, otherwise I'll google<br>about a bit more for clues.<br><br>Trying to run masterview_plugin:package which builds zip/tgz files breaks on<br>windows when the rake task tries to shell out to run tar, which ain't there
<br>on win32.<br><br>I took a quick look at minitar per your commented-out entries in the<br>rakefile:<br><br>#require 'archive/tar/minitar'<br>#require 'zlib'<br><br>You know any more about minitar or what's needed to get it hooked into rake
<br>for win32 tar'ing? Couldn't find any obvious refs in first quick look in<br>the rake impl's and docs; only other google tip so far was "install cygwin"<br>[bah, i'd rather get my new suse linux dual boot loaded up with ruby at that
<br>point and run builds on my backup machine]<br><br>~ Deb<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Masterview-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Masterview-devel@rubyforge.org">Masterview-devel@rubyforge.org
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