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  1. = Rake 0.5.0 Released
  2. Although it has only been two weeks since the last release, we have
  3. enough updates to the Rake program to make it time for another
  4. release.
  5. == Changes
  6. Here are the changes for version 0.5.3 ...
  7. * FileLists have been extensively changed so that they mimic the
  8. behavior of real arrays even more closely. In particular,
  9. operations on FileLists that return a new collection (e.g. collect,
  10. reject) will now return a FileList rather than an array. In
  11. addition, several places where FileLists were not properly expanded
  12. before use have been fixed.
  13. * A method (+ext+) to simplify the handling of file extensions was
  14. added to String and to Array.
  15. * The 'testrb' script in test/unit tends to silently swallow syntax
  16. errors in test suites. Because of that, the default test loader is
  17. now a rake-provided script. You can still use 'testrb' by setting
  18. the loader flag in the test task to :testrb. (See the API documents
  19. for TestTask for all the loader flag values).
  20. * FileUtil methods (e.g. cp, mv, install) are now declared to be
  21. private. This will cut down on the interference with user defined
  22. methods of the same name.
  23. * Fixed the verbose flag in the TestTask so that the test code is
  24. controlled by the flag. Also shortened up some failure messages.
  25. (Thanks to Tobias Luetke for the suggestion).
  26. * Rules will now properly detect a task that can generate a source
  27. file. Previously rules would only consider source files that were
  28. already present.
  29. * Added an +import+ command that allows Rake to dynamically import
  30. dependendencies into a running Rake session. The +import+ command
  31. can run tasks to update the dependency file before loading them.
  32. Dependency files can be in rake or make format, allowing rake to
  33. work with tools designed to generate dependencies for make.
  34. == What is Rake
  35. Rake is a build tool similar to the make program in many ways. But
  36. instead of cryptic make recipes, Rake uses standard Ruby code to
  37. declare tasks and dependencies. You have the full power of a modern
  38. scripting language built right into your build tool.
  39. == Availability
  40. The easiest way to get and install rake is via RubyGems ...
  41. gem install rake (you may need root/admin privileges)
  42. Otherwise, you can get it from the more traditional places:
  43. Home Page:: http://rake.rubyforge.org/
  44. Download:: http://rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50
  45. == Thanks
  46. As usual, it was input from users that drove a alot of these changes.
  47. Thanks to ...
  48. * Brian Gernhardt for the rules fix (especially for the patience to
  49. explain the problem to me until I got what he was talking about).
  50. * Stefan Lang for pointing out problems in the dark corners of the
  51. FileList implementation.
  52. * Alexey Verkhovsky pointing out the silently swallows syntax errors
  53. in tests.
  54. * Tobias Luetke for beautifying the test task output.
  55. * Sam Roberts for some of the ideas behind dependency loading.
  56. -- Jim Weirich