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