I would like to release a RubyGems by the end of the week, but on
Monday at latest. Please test revision 1772 of trunk.
Windows users, please check out
Gem::ConfigFile::SYSTEM_WIDE_CONFIG_FILE to make sure it is correct.
I pulled this code from an email from Daniel Berger of several months
ago.
I'll be contacting the operators of gems.rubyonrails.org and
gems.github.com to give them a heads-up about the upcoming release so
they can update to the new rubygems as close to the release
announcement as possible.
Here is a draft of the 1.2.0 release notes, let me know if I missed
anything.
New features:
* RubyGems no longer performs bulk updates and instead only fetches
the gemspec
files it needs. Alternate sources will need to upgrade to RubyGems
1.2 to
allow RubyGems to take advantage of the new metadata updater. If a
pre 1.2
remote source is in the sources list, RubyGems will revert to the
bulk update
code for compatibility.
* RubyGems now has runtime and development dependency types. Use
#add_development_dependency and #add_runtime_dependency. All
typeless
dependencies are considered to be development dependencies.
* RubyGems will now require rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb and
rubygems/defaults/#{RBX_ENGINE}.rb if they exist. This allows
packagers and
ruby implementers to add custom behavior to RubyGems via these files.
* /etc/gemrc (and windows equivalent) for global settings
* setup.rb now handles --vendor and --destdir for packagers
* `gem stale` command that lists gems by last access time
Bugs Fixed:
* `gem install --no-wrappers` followed by `gem install --wrappers` no
longer
overwrites executables
* `gem pristine` now forces reinstallation of gems, bug #20387
* A trailing / is now added to remote sources when missing, bug #20134
* RubyGems gracefully handles ^C while loading .gemspec files from
disk, bug
#20523
* Paths are expanded in more places, bug #19317, bug #19896
* Gem::DependencyInstaller resets installed gems every install, bug
#19444
* Gems with legacy platforms will now be correctly uninstalled, patch
#19877
* Gem.default_path is now honored if GEM_PATH is not set, patch #19502
* File modes from gems are now honored, patch #19737
Other Changes Include:
* setup.rb
* stub files created by RubyGems 0.7.x and older are no longer
removed. When
upgrading from these ancient versions, upgrade to 1.1.x first to
clean up
stubs.
* RDoc is no longer required untill necessary, patch #20414
* `gem server`
* Now completely matches the output of `gem generate_index` and
has correct content types
* Refreshes from source directories for every hit. The server will
no longer
need to be restarted after installing gems.
* `gem query --details` and friends now display author, homepage,
rubyforge url
and installed location
* `gem install` without -i no longer reinstalls dependencies if they
are in
GEM_PATH and not in GEM_HOME
* Gem::RemoteFetcher now performs persistent connections for HEAD
requests,
bug #7973
For a full list of changes to RubyGems and the contributor for each
change, see
the ChangeLog file.
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