1= Rake 0.9.3 Released 2 3Rake version 0.9.3 contains some new, backwards compatible features and 4a number of bug fixes. 5 6== Changes 7 8=== New Features 9 10* Multitask tasks now use a thread pool. Use -j to limit the number of 11 available threads. 12 13* Use -m to turn regular tasks into multitasks (use at your own risk). 14 15* You can now do "Rake.add_rakelib 'dir'" in your Rakefile to 16 programatically add rake task libraries. 17 18* You can specific backtrace suppression patterns (see 19 --supress-backtrace) 20 21* Directory tasks can now take prerequisites and actions 22 23* Use --backtrace to request a full backtrace without the task trace. 24 25* You can say "--backtrace=stdout" and "--trace=stdout" to route trace 26 output to standard output rather than standard error. 27 28* Optional 'phony' target (enable with 'require 'rake/phony'") for 29 special purpose builds. 30 31* Task#clear now clears task comments as well as actions and 32 prerequisites. Task#clear_comment will specifically target comments. 33 34* The --all option will force -T and -D to consider all the tasks, 35 with and without descriptions. 36 37=== Bug Fixes 38 39* Semi-colons in windows rakefile paths now work. 40 41* Improved Control-C support when invoking multiple test suites. 42 43* egrep method now reads files in text mode (better support for 44 Windows) 45 46* Better deprecation line number reporting. 47 48* The -W option now works with all tasks, whether they have a 49 description or not. 50 51* File globs in rake should not be sorted alphabetically, independent 52 of file system and platform. 53 54* Numerous internal improvements. 55 56* Documentation typos and fixes. 57 58== What is Rake 59 60Rake is a build tool similar to the make program in many ways. But 61instead of cryptic make recipes, Rake uses standard Ruby code to 62declare tasks and dependencies. You have the full power of a modern 63scripting language built right into your build tool. 64 65== Availability 66 67The easiest way to get and install rake is via RubyGems ... 68 69 gem install rake (you may need root/admin privileges) 70 71Otherwise, you can get it from the more traditional places: 72 73Home Page:: http://github.com/jimweirich/rake 74Download:: http://rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50 75GitHub:: git://github.com/jimweirich/rake.git 76 77== Thanks 78 79As usual, it was input from users that drove a alot of these changes. The 80following people either contributed patches, made suggestions or made 81otherwise helpful comments. Thanks to ... 82 83* Aaron Patterson 84* Dylan Smith 85* Jo Liss 86* Jonas Pfenniger 87* Kazuki Tsujimoto 88* Michael Bishop 89* Michael Elufimov 90* NAKAMURA Usaku 91* Ryan Davis 92* Sam Grönblom 93* Sam Phippen 94* Sergio Wong 95* Tay Ray Chuan 96* grosser 97* quix 98 99Also, many thanks to Eric Hodel for assisting with getting this release 100out the door. 101 102-- Jim Weirich 103