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= Rake Changelog
== 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.
= Rake Changelog
== 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.
Rake is a simple ruby build program with capabilities similar to make.
Rake has the following features:
* Rakefiles (rake's version of Makefiles) are completely defined in
standard Ruby syntax. No XML files to edit. No quirky Makefile
syntax to worry about (is that a tab or a space?)
* Users can specify tasks with prerequisites.
* Rake supports rule patterns to sythesize implicit tasks.
* Rake is lightweight. It can be distributed with other projects as
a single file. Projects that depend upon rake do not require that
rake be installed on target systems.
