= Release Notes

Facets 2.4 is a major step forward for Facets. It is perhaps
the release that 2.0 should have been, but of course it took
the actual 2.0 release to make 2.4 possible. Some annoyances
you may have encountered in updating your code to 2.0 are now
fixed. And from 2.4 on, Facets will now be settling down into
simple refinement release cycles.

The main change under the hood is to bring everything up to
the top lib/facets/ directory. No longer are the libraries
sorted by category. I had done so for a long time to make
it easier to track the various libs, but in the end it was
only making it more diffcult to deal with build tools and 
packaging.

For the end-user, the largest change is a new emphisis on:

  require 'facets'

This is better than cherry-picking methods. It may seem counter-
intuitive, but it actually proves more advantantages to do this
for the sake of interoperability than the practice of cherry-picking.
The reason is simply because others may have cherry-picked different
methods, and those distinctions go unaccounted and untested.

Also with this release, to bolster the use of require 'facets',
some lack-luster extensions have been deprecated and namespace usage
has been improved. In addition, we are getting very close to full
ActiveSupport, and Ruby 1.9, interoperability. Expect this
to be complete in the next minor release or two.

== Previously

(2.3.0) Amoung other changes with this release, cloneable.rb is
now a true deep dup/clone mixin; tracepoint.rb returns
to the library.

(2.2.1) This release get rid of the underlying methods subdir.
All method redirects are now in core, to ensure
there are no more name clashes.

(2.2.0) This release provides improved rdocs and prepares facets for
use with RUby 1.9. It also adds Matthew Harris' duration.rb
library. Bug thanks to Matthew!

(2.1.0) Major changes include a new and much-improved command.rb,
a new BiCrypt class for simple two-way crypotgraphy,
as well as attr_reader!, attr_writer! and attr_accessor!
for flag attributes, plus alias_xxx methods for all
attr_xxx methods.


### CHANGELOG 2.4.0 / 2008-03-24

* String#to_re and String#to_rx have swapped default behaviors. #to_rx escapes, #to_re does not.
* The Console namespace is being deprecated. command.rb and arguments.rb now use CLI naemspace.
* #compare_on and #equate_on are now "mixin methods" Comparable() and Equateable().
* Enumerable#product, #combintations and #permutations have change to be Ruby 1.9 compatible.
* thread.rb, map_send, et al, block is passed to send instead of yielding on result.
* namespace.rb has been renamed to methodspace.rb.
* Ruby 1.9 defined a new Proc#curry method, so Facets version has been made compatible.
* The old curry method is now called #partial, as in "partial application".
* Deprecated interface.rb. Perhaps a better approach but nonetheless extraneous.
* Deprecated paramix.rb. A better way is to use a capitialized methods. (Perhaps a lib for that?)
* Brought back a few web related libs, htmlfilter.rb and cssfilter.rb in particular.
* camelcase and snakecase are core extensions. For specialized styles use String#style in style.rb.
* This was a fairly large and fast-paced update, so unfortunately not all changes are listed this time.