# CHANGES

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# Rake Changelog

## Version 0.8.1

- Removed requires on parsedate.rb (in Ftptools)
- Removed ftools from rake.rb. Made it options in sys.rb

## Version 0.8.0

- Added task parameters (e.g. "rake build[version7]")
- Made task parameters passable to prerequisites.
- The ‘desc’ command will now document task argument names.
- Comments are limited to 80 columns or so (suggested by Jamis Buck).
- Added -D to display full comments (suggested by Jamis Buck).
- The rake program will set the status value used in any explicit exit(n) calls. (patch provided by Stephen Touset)
- Fixed error in functional tests that were not including session (and silently skipping the functionl tests.
- Removed —usage and make -h the same as -H.
- Make a prettier inspect for tasks.

## Version 0.7.3

- Added existing and existing! methods to FileList
- FileLists now claim to be Arrays (via is_a?) to get better support from the FileUtil module.
- Added init and top_level for custom rake applications.

## Version 0.7.2

- Error messages are now send to stderr rather than stdout (from Payton Quackenbush).
- Better error handling on invalid command line arguments (from Payton Quackenbush).
- Added rcov task and updated unit testing for better code coverage.
- Fixed some bugs where the application object was going to the global appliation instead of using its own data.
- Added square and curly bracket patterns to FileList#include (Tilman Sauerbeck).
- Added plain filename support to rule dependents (suggested by Nobu Nakada).
- Added pathmap support to rule dependents.
- Added a ‘tasks’ method to a namespace to get a list of tasks associated with the namespace.
- Fixed the method name leak from FileUtils (bug found by Glenn Vanderburg).
- Added rake_extension to handle detection of extension collisions.
- Added test for noop, bad_option and verbose flags to sh command.
- Removed dependency on internal fu_xxx functions from FileUtils.
- Added a ‘shame’ task to the Rakefile.
- Added tar_command and zip_command options to the Package task.
- Added a description to the gem task in GemPackageTask.
- Fixed a bug when rules have multiple prerequisites (patch by Joel VanderWerf)
- Added a protected ‘require "rubygems"’ to test/test_application to unbreak cruisecontrol.rb.
- Added the handful of RakeFileUtils to the private method as well.
- Added block based exclusion.
- The clean task will no longer delete ‘core’ if it is a directory.
- Removed rake_dup. Now we just simply rescue a bad dup.
- Refactored the FileList reject logic to remove duplication.
- Removed if FILE at the end of the rake.rb file.

## Version 0.7.1

- Added optional filter parameter to the —tasks command line option.
- Added flatten to allow rule transform procs to return lists of prereqs (Joel VanderWerf provided patch).
- Added pathmap to String and FileList.
- The -r option will now load .rake files (but a straight require doesn‘t yet). NOTE: This is experimental … it may be discontinued.
- The -f option without a value will disable the search for a Rakefile. The assumption is that the -r files are adequate.
- Fixed the safe_ln function to fall back to cp in more error scenarios.

## Version 0.7.0

- Added Rake.original_dir to return the original starting directory of the rake application.
- Added safe_ln support for openAFS (from Ludvig Omholt).
- Added —trace reminder on short exception messages (David Heinemeier Hansson suggestion).
- Added multitask declaration that executes prerequisites in parallel. (Doug Young providied an initial implementation).
- Fixed missing_const hack to be compatible with Rails. (Jamis Buck supplied test case).
- Made the RDoc task default to internal (in-process) RDoc formatting. The old behavior is still available by setting the `external` flag to true.
- Rakefiles are now loaded with the expanded path to prevent accidental polution from the Ruby load path.
- The `namespace` command now returns a NameSpace object that can be used to lookup tasks defined in that namespace. This allows for better anonymous namespace behavior.
- Task objects my now be used in prerequisite lists directly.

## Version 0.6.1

- Rebuilt 0.6.0 gem without signing.

## Version 0.6.0

- Fixed file creation bug in the unit tests (caused infinite loop on windows).
- Fixed bug where session based functional tests were run under windows.
- Fixed bug in directory tasks so that updating a directory will not retrigger file tasks depending on the directory (see FileCreationTask and EarlyTime).
- Added egrep to FileList
- ruby command now runs same ruby version as rake.
- Added investigation to task object. (suggested by Martin Fowler)
- Added ruby_opts to the test task to allow arbitrary ruby options to be passed to the test script. (Greg Fast)
- Fixed the test loader to ignore options. (Greg Fast)
- Moved Task, FileTask, FileCreationTask and RakeApp into the Rake module namespace. Old style namespace behavior can be invoked via the —classic-namespace option. (requested by Kelly Felkins).
- GemTask is now sensitive to the gem platform (Masao Mutoh).
- A non-existing file prerequisite will no longer cause an exception (Philipp Neubeck).
- Multiple prerequisites on Rake rules now allowed (initial patch supplied by Stuart Jansen).

## Version 0.5.4

- Added double quotes to the test runner.
- Added .svn to default ignore list.
- Updated FileList#include to support nested arrays and filelists.

## Version 0.5.3

- Added support for importing Rakefile and other dependencies.
- Fixed bug so that now rules can chain off of existing tasks as well as existing files.
- Fixed verbose flag bug in the testing task. Shortened some failure messages.
- Make FileUtils methods private at the top level module to avoid accidental method leaking into other objects.
- Added test loader option to test task. "testrb" is no longer the default test loader. It is now eating syntax errors that should halt the unit tests.
- Revamped FileList so that it works more like and array (addressed flatten bug). Added many tests around file list.
- Added `ext` method to both String and FileList.

## Version 0.5.0

- Fixed documentation that was lacking the Rake module name (Tilman Sauerbeck).
- Added tar.gz and tar.bz2 support to package task (Tilman Sauerbeck).
- Recursive rules are now supported (Tilman Sauerbeck).
- Added warning option for the Test Task (requested by Eric Hodel).
- The jamis rdoc template is only used if it exists.
- Added fix for Ruby 1.8.2 test/unit and rails problem.
- Added contributed rake man file (Jani Monoses).
- Added Brian Candler‘s fix for problems in —trace and —dry-run mode.

## Version 0.4.15

- Fixed a bug that prevented the TESTOPTS flag from working with the revised for 1.8.2 test task.
- Updated the docs on —trace to indicate that it also enables a full backtrace on errors.

## Version 0.4.14

- Modified the TestTask to workaround the Ruby 1.8.2 change in autoexecuting unit tests.

## Version 0.4.13

- Fixed the dry-run flag so it is operating again.
- Multiple arguments to sh and ruby commands will not be interpreted by the shell (patch provided by Jonathan Paisley).

## Version 0.4.12

- Added —silent (-s) to suppress the (in directory) rake message.

## Version 0.4.11

- Changed the "don‘t know how to rake" message (finally)
- Changes references to a literal "Rakefile" to reference the global variable $rakefile (which contains the actual name of the rakefile).

## Version 0.4.10

- Added block support to the "sh" command, allowing users to take special actions on the result of the system call. E.g.

        sh "shell_command" do |ok, res|
          puts "Program returned #{res.exitstatus}" if ! ok
        end

## Version 0.4.9

- Switched to Jamis Buck‘s RDoc template.
- Removed autorequire from Rake‘s gem spec. This prevents the Rake libraries from loading while using rails.

## Version 0.4.8

- Added support for .rb versions of Rakefile.
- Removed \\n‘s from test task.
- Fixed Ruby 1.9 compatibility issue with FileList.

## Version 0.4.7

- Fixed problem in FileList that caused Ruby 1.9 to go into infinite recursion. Since to_a was removed from Object, it does not need to added back into the list of methods to rewrite in FileList. (Thanks to Kent Sibilev for pointing this out).

## Version 0.4.6

- Removed test version of ln in FileUtils that prevented safe_ln from using ln.

## Version 0.4.5

- Upgraded comments in TestTask.
- FileList to_s and inspect now automatically resolve pending changes.
- FileList#exclude properly returns the FileList.

## Version 0.4.4

- Fixed initialization problem with @comment.
- Now using multi -r technique in TestTask. Switch Rakefile back to using the built-in test task macros because the rake runtime is no longer needed.
- Added ‘TEST=filename’ and ‘TESTOPTS=options’ to the Test Task macros.
- Allow a `test_files` attribute in test tasks. This allows more flexibility in specifying test files.

## Version 0.4.3

- Fixed Comment leakage.

## Version 0.4.2

- Added safe_ln that falls back to a copy if a file link is not supported.
- Package builder now uses safe_ln.

## Version 0.4.1

- Task comments are now additive, combined with "/".
- Works with (soon to be released) rubygems 0.6.2 (or 0.7.0)

## Version 0.4.0

- FileList now uses deferred loading. The file system is not searched until the first call that needs the file names.
- VAR=VALUE options are now accepted on the command line and are treated like environment variables. The values may be tested in a Rakefile by referencing ENV[‘VAR’].
- File.mtime is now used (instead of File.new().mtime).

## Version 0.3.2.x

- Removed some hidden dependencies on rubygems. Tests now will test gems only if they are installed.
- Removed Sys from some example files. I believe that is that last reference to Sys outside of the contrib area.
- Updated all copyright notices to include 2004.

## Version 0.3.2

- GEM Installation now works with the application stub.

## Version 0.3.1

- FileLists now automatically ignore CVS, .bak, !
- GEM Installation now works.

## Version 0.3.0

Promoted 0.2.10.

## Version 0.2.10

General

- Added title to Rake‘s rdocs
- Contrib packages are no longer included in the documentation.

RDoc Issues

- Removed default for the ’—main’ option
- Fixed rendering of the rdoc options
- Fixed clean/clobber confusion with rerdoc
- ‘title’ attribute added

Package Task Library Issues

- Version (or explicit :noversion) is required.
- `package_file` attribute is now writable

FileList Issues

- Dropped bang version of exclude. Now using ant-like include/exclude semantics.
- Enabled the "yield self" idiom in FileList#initialize.

## Version 0.2.9

This version contains numerous changes as the RubyConf.new(2003) presentation was being prepared. The changes include:

- The monolithic rubyapp task library is in the process of being dropped in favor of lighter weight task libraries.

## Version 0.2.7

- Added "desc" for task descriptions.
- -T will now display tasks with descriptions.
- -P will display tasks and prerequisites.
- Dropped the Sys module in favor of the 1.8.x FileUtils module. Sys is still supported in the contrib area.

## Version 0.2.6

- Moved to RubyForge

## Version 0.2.5

- Switched to standard ruby app builder.
- Added no_match option to file matcher.

## Version 0.2.4

- Fixed indir, which neglected to actually change directories.

## Version 0.2.3

- Added rake module for a help target
- Added ‘for_files’ to Sys
- Added a $rakefile constant
- Added test for selecting proper rule with multiple targets.

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