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28 Mar 2011
1.7.0 Released
- 16 Deprecations (woot!)
- Deprecated Gem.all_load_paths, latest_load_paths, promote_load_path, and cache.
- Deprecated RemoteFetcher#open_uri_or_path.
- Deprecated SourceIndex#all_gems.
- Deprecated SourceIndex#initialize(hash_of_specs).
- Deprecated SourceIndex.from_installed_gems, from_gems_in, and load_specification.
- Deprecated Specification#has_rdoc, default_executable, and test_suite_file(=).
- Deprecated Specification#has_rdoc= and default_executable=
- 26 minor enhancements:
- Added stupid simple deprecation module.
- Added –spec option to
gem unpackto output a gem’s original metadata - Added packaging option to Specification#validate
- Gem.bin_path requires the exec_name argument.
- Read from cached specs if fetch fails for some reason
- Refactored Specification#assign_defaults into #initialize.
- RemoteFetcher#fetch_path now dispatches dynamically to ‘fetch_[uri.schema]’
- Removed Specification @@gather.
- Removed Specification.attribute.
- Removed Specification.attribute_alias_singular.
- Removed Specification.attribute_defaults.
- Removed Specification.attributes
- Removed Specification.overwrite_accessor.
- Removed Specification.read_only.
- Removed Specification.required_attribute.
- Removed Specification::SPECIFICATION_VERSION_HISTORY and turned into rdoc
- Removed blanket rescue in default_executable. Hope it doesn’t blow up! :P
- Removed nearly all metaprogramming from Specification. Yay for attr_accessor!
- SourceIndex#initialize changed to prefer an array of spec dirs, defaulting to none.
- SourceIndex.new is now the preferred way to create SourceIndex instances. gasp
- Specification#validate now checks that array attribs are indeed arrays.
- Specification.default_value is now an instance method.
- Switched Specification::TODAY to be proper midnight @ UTC
- Update Gem::RemoteFetcher's User-Agent to handle RUBY_ENGINE and RUBY_REVISION when patchlevel is -1
- UpdateCommand#gems_to_update now returns (name, version) pairs.
- UpdateCommand#which_to_update now takes an optional system argument.
- 11 bug fixes:
- Added missing remote fetcher require to pristine command (aarnell)
- Building gems now checks to ensure all required fields are non-nil
- Fix option parser when summary is nil.
- Fixed
gem contentsto work with the lightweight specifications - Fixed
gem update --system x.y.zwhere x.y.z == latest version. (MGPalmer) - Fixed gem contents sorting and tests. (MGPalmer)
- Fixed intermittant problem in
gem fetchwith –platform specified (quix) - Fixed lightweight specifications so
gem rdocwill generate proper documentation - MockGemUI#terminate_interaction should not raise Gem::SystemExitException. (MGPalmer)
- RubyGems now raises a better error for broken .gem files. Bug #29067 by Elias Baixas
gem updatenow uniq’s command line arguments.