1= Rake 0.9.1 Released 2 3Rake version 0.9.1 has a number of bug fixes and enhancments (see 4below for more details). Additionally, the internals have be slightly 5restructured and improved. 6 7== Changes 8 9Rake 0.9.1 adds back the global DSL methods, but with deprecation 10messages. This allows Rake 0.9.1 to be used with older rakefiles with 11warning messages. 12 13== What is Rake 14 15Rake is a build tool similar to the make program in many ways. But 16instead of cryptic make recipes, Rake uses standard Ruby code to 17declare tasks and dependencies. You have the full power of a modern 18scripting language built right into your build tool. 19 20== Availability 21 22The easiest way to get and install rake is via RubyGems ... 23 24 gem install rake (you may need root/admin privileges) 25 26Otherwise, you can get it from the more traditional places: 27 28Home Page:: http://rake.rubyforge.org/ 29Download:: http://rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50 30GitHub:: git://github.com/jimweirich/rake.git 31 32== Thanks 33 34As usual, it was input from users that drove a alot of these changes. The 35following people either contributed patches, made suggestions or made 36otherwise helpful comments. Thanks to ... 37 38* James M. Lawrence (quix) 39* Roger Pack 40* Cezary Baginski 41* Sean Scot August Moon 42* R.T. Lechow 43* Alex Chaffee 44* James Tucker 45* Matthias Lüdtke 46* Santiago Pastorino 47 48Also, bit thanks to Eric Hodel for assisting with getting this release 49out the door (where "assisting" includes, but is not by any means 50limited to, "pushing" me to get it done). 51 52-- Jim Weirich 53