1= Rake 0.9.6 Released 2 3Rake version 0.9.6 contains a number of fixes mainly for merging 4Rake into the Ruby source tree and fixing tests. 5 6== Changes 7 8=== New Features (in 0.9.3) 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 (0.9.3) 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=== Bug Fixes (0.9.4) 59 60* Exit status with failing tests is not correctly set to non-zero. 61 62* Simplified syntax for phony task (for older versions of RDoc). 63 64* Stand alone FileList usage gets glob function (without loading in 65 extra dependencies) 66 67=== Bug Fixes (0.9.5) 68 69* --trace and --backtrace no longer swallow following task names. 70 71=== Bug Fixes (0.9.6) 72 73* Better trace output when using a multi-threaded Rakefile. 74* Arg parsing is now consistent for tasks and multitasks. 75* Skip exit code test in versions of Ruby that don't support it well. 76 77Changes for better integration with the Ruby source tree: 78 79* Fix version literal for Ruby source tree build. 80* Better loading of libraries for testing in Ruby build. 81* Use the ruby version provided by Ruby's tests. 82 83== What is Rake 84 85Rake is a build tool similar to the make program in many ways. But 86instead of cryptic make recipes, Rake uses standard Ruby code to 87declare tasks and dependencies. You have the full power of a modern 88scripting language built right into your build tool. 89 90== Availability 91 92The easiest way to get and install rake is via RubyGems ... 93 94 gem install rake (you may need root/admin privileges) 95 96Otherwise, you can get it from the more traditional places: 97 98Home Page:: http://github.com/jimweirich/rake 99Download:: http://rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50 100GitHub:: git://github.com/jimweirich/rake.git 101 102== Thanks 103 104As usual, it was input from users that drove a alot of these changes. The 105following people either contributed patches, made suggestions or made 106otherwise helpful comments. Thanks to ... 107 108* Aaron Patterson 109* Dylan Smith 110* Jo Liss 111* Jonas Pfenniger 112* Kazuki Tsujimoto 113* Michael Bishop 114* Michael Elufimov 115* NAKAMURA Usaku 116* Ryan Davis 117* Sam Grönblom 118* Sam Phippen 119* Sergio Wong 120* Tay Ray Chuan 121* grosser 122* quix 123 124Also, many thanks to Eric Hodel for assisting with getting this release 125out the door. 126 127-- Jim Weirich 128