= Rant NEWS

== 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 <tt>rac.build "target"</tt>
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]