Comment 2 for bug 1687813

I can see why this breaks; unfortunately, it will be hard to fix without removing other features. (The \input{} hack is required for some of the more obscure things Rubber can do.)

Note: As you can see, there has been little activity recently. The reason is the above: Rubber tries to do too many things and suffers from complexity collapse. At the moment, I'm leaning towards a clean rewrite with considerably less features. In any case, patches welcome: In this case, one would either have to figure out in which cases the \input{} hack is actually required, or whether one can escape the tilde character in \input{}.