= Rant NEWS
== Rant 0.4.6
Incompatible changes:
* *Important*: The notation "#foo" to reference a task
defined in the project's root directory changed to "@foo".
* Previous Rant versions loaded both, +Rantfile+ and
Rantfile.rb, if present. This version will only load one of
them (preferably +Rantfile+).
* +RubyTest+ tasks no longer honour TESTOPTS variable.
Deprecated:
* The filenames Rantfile.rb and rantfile.rb are
deprecated for rantfiles and won't be recognized by future Rant
versions. Use +Rantfile+, +rantfile+ or root.rant instead.
Fixes and minor improvements:
* Fix an issue where a file was unnecessary rebuilt when rant was
started from different directories, the file task was created from a
rule and md5 signatures were used.
* Concise output from Package::Tgz and Package::Zip tasks.
* A manpage will be installed on Linux/Unix systems by the install.rb
script.
* A fix for a FileUtils::Verbose bug in Ruby 1.8.3 which affects some
sys methods.
New features:
* The --cd-parent (-c) option to search for an Rantfile in parent
directories.
* The --look-up (-u) option to search for the root Rantfile in parent
directories.
* Recognition of rantfiles with the names root.rant and
sub.rant, where a sub.rant file is meant for a
project subdirectory and is treated special.
Read doc/subdirs.rdoc[link:files/doc/subdirs_rdoc.html]
* The +sys+ and sys.ruby methods take an optional block for
custom process exit status handling (per default, Rant aborts if a
subprocess started with +sys+ exits with another status than 0).
== Rant 0.4.4
Besides internal changes, this release is backwards compatible to
0.4.2.
Fixes and minor improvements:
* Rant is Ruby 1.8.0 compatible now.
* Fixes for filelists.
* A fix for Directory generator (and thus dependent features).
New features:
* Optional recognition of file changes based on MD5 checksums.
Read doc/md5.rdoc[link:files/doc/md5_rdoc.html] for documentation.
== Rant 0.4.2
This is mainly a bugfix release and thus fully backwards compatible to
0.4.0.
Fixes and minor improvements:
* Fixes for Ruby 1.8.1 compatibility.
* Fixes for Rules and multiple buildfiles per project.
* rant-import created scripts append inlined files to
$LOADED_FEATURES.
New features:
* The +make+ command.
* New method +sub_ext+ for filelists.
Read doc/advanced.rdoc[link:files/doc/advanced_rdoc.html].
== Rant 0.4.0
Unless you extended Rant with a custom generator, you can upgrade from
0.3.8 without changing any dependent code.
Incompatible changes:
* _Internal_: A generator has to respond to +rant_gen+ instead of
+rant_generate+.
New features:
* Creating zip and gzipped tar archives on all supported platforms
without installing extra software. Seamless integration with
rant-import.
Read doc/package.rdoc[link:files/doc/package_rdoc.html].
* The standard RubyPackage tasks create zip and gzipped tar archives
(and optional gem packages) on all platforms, including Windows,
now.
* rant-import recognizes the new directives +uncomment+ and +remove+.
== Rant 0.3.8
This version should be fully backwards compatible to 0.3.6.
New features:
* Dependency checking for C/C++ sources.
Read doc/c.rdoc[link:files/doc/c_rdoc.html] documentation.
* Installing ".cmd" files on Windows with the Win32::RubyCmdWrapper.
Read doc/rubyproject.rdoc[link:files/doc/rubyproject_rdoc.html].
* Convenient directory/file creation with SubFile.
Read doc/advanced.rdoc[link:files/doc/advanced_rdoc.html].
* rant-import inlines specially marked, +require+ files.
== Rant 0.3.6
This version should be fully backwards compatible to 0.3.4.
New features:
* Automatic cleanup of generated files
* Directed rules
* Constraining variables
* rant-import searches $LOAD_PATH
* Immediately build targets with rac.build "target"
Read doc/rantfile.rdoc[link:files/doc/rantfile_rdoc.html] and
doc/advanced.rdoc[link:files/doc/advanced_rdoc.html] for docu.
== Rant 0.3.4
Incompatible changes:
* Arguments of the form VAR=VAL to rant no longer set environment
variables directly, they are available through +var+ now. Read
doc/advanced.rdoc[link:files/doc/advanced_rdoc.html] for more info.
* Replace any
include Sys
with
include Rant::Sys
in Rantfiles. Or even better: don't include the +Sys+ module.
New features:
* Installation with install.rb installs .cmd files on Windows.
Read README[link:files/README.html]
* Sharing variables between Rantfiles. Read
doc/advanced.rdoc[link:files/doc/advanced_rdoc.html] for more info.
* Selecting files with the +sys+ command.
* Rules
Read doc/rantfile.rdoc[link:files/doc/rantfile_rdoc.html] for docu.
== Rant 0.3.2
This version should be fully backwards compatible to 0.3.0.
New features:
* Support splitting your buildfiles up and placing them into multiple
directories with the +subdirs+ command. Please read
doc/rantfile.rdoc[link:files/doc/rantfile_rdoc.html] for usage.
This is especially useful for bigger projects.
== Rant 0.3.0
First release of Rant on RubyForge.
== See also
Rant Overview::
README[link:files/README.html]