1= Rake 0.8.7 Released 2 3Rake version 0.8.5 introduced greatly improved support for executing 4commands on Windows. The "sh" command now has the same semantics on 5Windows that it has on Unix based platforms. 6 7Rake version 0.8.6 includes minor fixes the the RDoc generation. 8Rake version 0.8.7 includes a minor fix for JRuby running on windows. 9 10== Changes 11 12=== New Features / Enhancements in Version 0.8.5 13 14* Improved implementation of the Rake system command for Windows. 15 (patch from James M. Lawrence/quix) 16 17* Support for Ruby 1.9's improved system command. (patch from James 18 M. Lawrence/quix) 19 20* Rake now includes the configured extension when invoking an 21 executable (Config::CONFIG['EXEEXT]) 22 23=== Bug Fixes in Version 0.8.5 24 25* Environment variable keys are now correctly cased (it matters in 26 some implementations). 27 28== What is Rake 29 30Rake is a build tool similar to the make program in many ways. But 31instead of cryptic make recipes, Rake uses standard Ruby code to 32declare tasks and dependencies. You have the full power of a modern 33scripting language built right into your build tool. 34 35== Availability 36 37The easiest way to get and install rake is via RubyGems ... 38 39 gem install rake (you may need root/admin privileges) 40 41Otherwise, you can get it from the more traditional places: 42 43Home Page:: http://rake.rubyforge.org/ 44Download:: http://rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50 45GitHub:: git://github.com/jimweirich/rake.git 46 47== Thanks 48 49As usual, it was input from users that drove a alot of these changes. The 50following people either contributed patches, made suggestions or made 51otherwise helpful comments. Thanks to ... 52 53* Charles Nutter 54 55-- Jim Weirich 56