rubygems-update 1.1.0 → 1.1.1

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+== Release 0.8.1: Sep 14, 2004
+
+* Quick release to capture some bug fixes.
+

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+= Announce: RubyGems Release 0.8.10
+
+Version 0.8.10 is bug fix release.  We address two bugs in this
+release, one obscure and the other only slightly annoying.
+
+In multi-user environments, it is common to supply mulitple versions
+of gems (for example Rails), allowing individual users to select the
+version of the gem they desire.  This allows a user to be insulated
+from updates to that gem.  RubyGems 0.8.10 fixes a problem where gems
+could occasionally become confused about the current versions of
+libraries selected by the user.
+
+The other annoying bug is that if there are any existing
+rubygems-update gems installed, then the "gem update --system" command
+will download a new udpate, but install the latest update prior to the
+download.  
+
+== What is RubyGems?
+
+RubyGems is a package management system for Ruby applications and
+libraries.  RubyGems one command download makes installing Ruby software
+fun and enjoyable again. (Ok, not really.)
+
+Many gems are available for download from the RubyForge site.  Browse
+the list of gems with a "gem list --remote" command and download what
+you need with a simple "gem install <name-of-gem>".  RubyGems takes care
+of the details of installing, not only the gem you requested, but also
+any gems needed by the software you selected.
+
+== RubyGems Statistics
+
+* About 230 different gems available (I say _about_ because I don't
+  think "Bangkok" and "bangkok" are really different gems).
+* Over 30,000 downloads of the RubyGems software
+* 230,075 gem loads
+
+If you are interested in finding out when new gems are released, I
+maintain an RSS feed at http://onestepback.org/gemwatch.rss.
+
+== How can I get RubyGems?
+
+If you have a recent version of RubyGems (0.8.5 or later), then all
+you need to do is:
+
+  $ gem update --system   (you might need to be admin/root)
+
+(Note: You may have to run the command twice if you have any previosly
+installed rubygems-update gems).
+
+If you have an older version of RubyGems installed, then you can still
+do it in two steps:
+
+  $ gem install rubygems-update  (again, might need to be admin/root)
+  $ update_rubygems              (... here too)
+
+If you don't have any gems install, there is still the pre-gem
+approach to getting software ... doing it manually:
+
+1. DOWNLOAD FROM: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
+2. UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE
+3. INSTALL WITH:  ruby setup.rb all  (you may need admin/root privilege)
+
+== Thanks
+
+Thanks to Tobias Luetke for reporting the problem and assisting in
+tracking it down.
+
+Keep those gems coming!
+
+-- Jim & Chad (for the RubyGems team)

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+= Announce: RubyGems Release 0.8.11
+
+RubyGems Version 0.8.11 is now available.  This release includes a
+number of fixes and enhancements, including the work from the Seattle
+Ruby Brigade's RubyGems codefest.
+
+* Improved performance
+* Ability to sign gems (see http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/21)
+* New Command: gem contents -- List the contents of an installed gem
+* New Command: gem rdoc -- Generate rdoc files from an installed gem
+
+== What is RubyGems?
+
+RubyGems is a package management system for Ruby applications and
+libraries.  RubyGems one command download makes installing Ruby software
+fun and enjoyable again. (Ok, not really.)
+
+Many gems are available for download from the RubyForge site.  Browse
+the list of gems with a "gem list --remote" command and download what
+you need with a simple "gem install <name-of-gem>".  RubyGems takes care
+of the details of installing, not only the gem you requested, but also
+any gems needed by the software you selected.
+
+== RubyGems Statistics
+
+* About 326 different gems available (Around 100 new gems since the
+  0.8.10 release)
+* Nearly 64,000 downloads of the RubyGems software
+* Almost 600,000 gem downloads
+
+If you are interested in finding out when new gems are released, I
+maintain an RSS feed at http://onestepback.org/gemwatch.rss.
+
+== How can I get RubyGems?
+
+If you have a recent version of RubyGems (0.8.5 or later), then all
+you need to do is:
+
+  $ gem update --system   (you might need to be admin/root)
+
+(Note: You may have to run the command twice if you have any previosly
+installed rubygems-update gems).
+
+If you have an older version of RubyGems installed, then you can still
+do it in two steps:
+
+  $ gem install rubygems-update  (again, might need to be admin/root)
+  $ update_rubygems              (... here too)
+
+If you don't have any gems install, there is still the pre-gem
+approach to getting software ... doing it manually:
+
+1. DOWNLOAD FROM: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
+2. UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE
+3. INSTALL WITH:  ruby setup.rb all  (you may need admin/root privilege)
+
+== Recent Changes
+
+* -y is a synonym for --include-dependencies.
+* Better handling of errors in the top level rescue clause.
+* Package list command (e.g. gem inspect GEM).
+* .gemrc now allows cvsrc-like options to set defaults per subcommand.
+* The autorequire gem spec field will now accept a list.
+* Substituted Time for Date in specs, increasing performance
+  dramatically.
+* Fixed reported bug of gem directories ending in "-" (reported by
+  Erik Hatcher).
+* Fixed but in installer that caused dependency installation to not
+  work.
+* Added Paul Duncan's gem signing patch.
+* Added Mark Hubbart's Framework patch (for better integration with OS
+  X).
+* Added David Glasser's install-from-mirror patch.
+* Additional internal structural cleanup and test reorganization.
+
+== What's Next
+
+We will probably see one more release in the 0.8.x series (hopefully
+soon) where the source index download function will be revised to
+perform better with a large number gems.
+
+After that, the 0.9.x series will start unifying the local and remote
+installers to get more consistent behavior.
+
+== Thanks
+
+Major contributors to this release include:
+
+* Thanks to the  Seattle Ruby  Brigade (Doug  Beaver,  Ryan Davis, Pat
+  Eyler, Eric Hodel,  Evan Webb, and Aaron  Johnson) for the work they
+  did in their code fest.
+
+* Thanks to Paul Duncan for the gem signing patch.
+
+* Thanks to Mark Hubbart for the Mac OS X framework patch.
+
+* Thanks to Doug Kearns for catching some embarassing typos in several
+  error messages.
+
+Keep those gems coming!
+
+-- Jim & Chad (for the RubyGems team)

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+= Announce: RubyGems Release 0.8.3
+
+Wow, over 8000 download of either the RubyGems package or the
+RubyGems-update gem!  And over 150 different packages available as a
+gem.  Things have really moved foreward.
+
+I am pleased to announce that a new point release of RubyGems is now
+available on RubyForge.  This release is mostly a bug fix and code
+cleanup release.  But the good news is that there are several really
+annoying issues that have been addressed in 0.8.3.
+
+But first ...
+
+== What is RubyGems?
+
+RubyGems is a package management system for Ruby applications and
+libraries.  RubyGems one command download makes installing Ruby
+software fun and enjoyable again. (Ok, not really.)
+
+Many gems are available for download from the RubyForge site.  Browse
+the list of gems with a "gem list --remote" command and download what
+you need with a simple "gem install <name-of-gem>".  RubyGems takes
+care of the details of installing, not only the gem you requested, but
+also any gems needed by the software you selected.
+
+So now you are asking ...
+
+== How can I get all this great stuff?
+
+Well, here's how ...
+
+To download and install:
+
+1. DOWNLOAD FROM: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
+2. UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE
+3. INSTALL WITH:  ruby setup.rb all  (you may need admin/root privilege)
+
+... or, if you have an existing RubyGem installation ....
+
+  $ gem install rubygems-update  (again, might need to be admin/root)
+  $ update_rubygems              (... here too)
+
+I bet you are wondering...
+
+== So What's Changed in this Release?
+
+No real earth shattering news here, but there were a number of really
+annoying issues involving other libraries that RubyGems depends upon.
+0.8.3 contains some workarounds for these issues.  In particular:
+
+* Added workaround for the null byte in Dir string issue. (see
+  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/121702).
+  (Thanks to Mauricio Fern�ndez for the quick response on this one).
+
+* Added workaround for old version of Zlib on windows that caused
+  Ruwiki to fail to install. (see
+  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/121770)
+
+* Added workaround for large YAML file issues.  (We dynamically cut
+  down the size of the source index YAML file and seem to have worked
+  around immediate issues.
+
+There has been some minor usability enhancements and changes ...
+
+* A user specific source index cache can be used when the site-wide
+  cache is unwritable (i.e. because you are running as a non-admin).
+  This *greatly* speeds up gem commands run in non-admin mode when the
+  site-wide cache is out of date.
+
+* The gem command now used an HTTP HEAD command to detect if the
+  server's source index needs to be downloaed.
+
+* gem check gemname --test will run unit tests on installed gems that
+  have unit tests.
+
+* Multiple gem names are allowed on the gem install command line.
+  This means you can do:
+
+    gem install rake rails needle postgres-pr pimki
+
+  (Ok, you get the idea)
+
+* Multiple authors my be specified in a Gem spec.
+
+* Switched to using setup.rb (rather than a custom install script) for
+  the installation of RubyGems itself.  If you have installed RubyGems
+  before, double check the installation instructions and make sure you
+  use setup.rb instead of install.rb.
+
+* Ryan Davis has provided a patch so you can use an env variable
+  (GEM_SKIP), to tell loadpath_manager not to load gems of those
+  names.  This was useful for him while testing libs that he had in
+  development.
+
+And finally there have been a number of internal changes, enhancements
+and just general cleanup.  A lot of work has been done in the remote
+installer area (some of which you can see in the caching changes noted
+above) in preparation for unifying the local and remote logic so that
+there is less difference in installing local gems and remote gems.  In
+particular, we want to be able to satisfy dependencies from locally
+available gem files.  We are not there yet, but we are working on it.
+
+== Summary
+
+Thanks to everyone for the great feedback we have been getting.
+Please continue to let us know what you think and what you want.  Many
+minor changes in this release were initiated/requested by folks other
+than the core gems team.  That's great.
+
+And most of all, keep making and releasing those gems!
+
+-- Jim (for the RubyGems team)
+

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+= Announce: RubyGems Release 0.8.4
+
+Hello and Happy New Year!  We've now surpassed 10,000 downloads of RubyGems and are starting to see a real rhythm of new gems being published.  Thanks to the efforts of many dedicated Rubyists, 2005 will be remembered as the year everything took shape in the world of ruby package distribution.
+
+We have just released RubyGems 0.8.4. 0.8.4 is a small release, but it fixes some fairly major installation issues (thanks Ryan Davis) and addresses some speed issues with requires (thanks Eric Hodel, Gavin Sinclair, and Jim Weirich). 
+
+== What is RubyGems?
+
+RubyGems is a package management system for Ruby applications and
+libraries.  RubyGems one command download makes installing Ruby
+software fun and enjoyable again. (Ok, not really.)
+
+Many gems are available for download from the RubyForge site.  Browse
+the list of gems with a "gem list --remote" command and download what
+you need with a simple "gem install <name-of-gem>".  RubyGems takes
+care of the details of installing, not only the gem you requested, but
+also any gems needed by the software you selected.
+
+So now you are asking ...
+
+== How can I get all this great stuff?
+
+Well, here's how ...
+
+To download and install:
+
+1. DOWNLOAD FROM: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
+2. UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE
+3. INSTALL WITH:  ruby setup.rb all  (you may need admin/root privilege)
+
+... or, if you have an existing RubyGem installation ....
+
+  $ gem install rubygems-update  (again, might need to be admin/root)
+  $ update_rubygems              (... here too)
+
+I bet you are wondering...
+
+== So What's Changed in this Release?
+
+* Rubygems 0.8.3's installer was broken unless you already had an older version of RubyGems installed.  That's fixed.
+
+* Change in the way Gem::Specification internally deals with lazy attributes and defaults, bringing (with some loadpath_manager changes) a fairly significant increase in speed.
+
+* Support for lower-cased Gem file names (for you, Paul Duncan :)
+
+* Erik Veenstra's patch for making Gem versions sortable.
+
+Keep those gems coming!
+
+-- Chad (for the RubyGems team)
+

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+= Announce: RubyGems Release 0.8.5
+
+Hello one and all.  It is time for another RubyGems update.  But first
+the numbers.
+
+Counting both the tarfile/zipfile download and the rubygem-update gem,
+we have exceed 20,000 downloads of the RubyGems software, and this
+doesn't count the number of RubyGems packages were downloaded as part of
+the Windows one-click installer.  New gems are being published all the
+time.  It was just a week or so ago when we saw the 200th gem released,
+and already we have more 213 unique gems available for download.
+
+We have just released RubyGems 0.8.5.  This latest version of RubyGems
+has some new functionality, fixes a few bugs and makes some things look
+prettier.  There are more changes in the works, but we wanted to get the
+new stuff out as fast as possible.
+
+== Faster Source Cache
+
+Do you know how you used to dread getting the following message while
+installing gems?
+
+  Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
+
+It could take up to 30 seconds (on my machine, even worse on others) for
+that crazy source index to update.
+
+This latest release of RubyGems speeds that wait time up considerably.
+The following table gives the following times for installing RedCloth
+with a required source index update on three system we had available to
+us.  No RDoc generation was included in the following times.
+
+  RubyGems    Linux         Mac OSX      Windows
+  0.8.4       33 secs       73 secs      58 secs
+  0.8.5        8 secs       14 secs      21 secs
+
+The new caching code is at least 3x faster than previous versions.  Woo
+Hoo!
+
+== What is RubyGems?
+
+RubyGems is a package management system for Ruby applications and
+libraries.  RubyGems one command download makes installing Ruby software
+fun and enjoyable again. (Ok, not really.)
+
+Many gems are available for download from the RubyForge site.  Browse
+the list of gems with a "gem list --remote" command and download what
+you need with a simple "gem install <name-of-gem>".  RubyGems takes care
+of the details of installing, not only the gem you requested, but also
+any gems needed by the software you selected.
+
+So now you are asking ...
+
+== How can I get all this great stuff?
+
+Well, here's how ...
+
+To download and install:
+
+1. DOWNLOAD FROM: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
+2. UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE
+3. INSTALL WITH:  ruby setup.rb all  (you may need admin/root privilege)
+
+... or, if you have an existing RubyGem installation ....
+
+  $ gem install rubygems-update  (again, might need to be admin/root)
+  $ update_rubygems              (... here too)
+
+== So What's Changed in this Release?
+
+* Fixed a bug where, during installation, partial matches on gem names
+  overshadowed an exact match on the gem name.  Exact matches are now
+  required.
+
+* Applied Austin Ziegler/Kasper Schiess's patch to fix unit test running
+  bug.
+
+* Applied Lyle Johnson's patch to fix a problem with multiple require
+  paths.
+
+* "gem update" now accepts a list of gems and only updates the gems
+  listed on the command line.  If no list is given then all gems are
+  updated (which is the bahvior of the previousversion.
+
+* gem_server has been updated with a very nice looking template.  Thanks
+  to Martin Ankerl.
+
+* RubyGems now actively requires Ruby version 1.8.0 or better.  Folks
+  trying to run RubyGems on OSX with the default Ruby installation will
+  now get a meaning error message (rather than mysteriously not
+  working).
+
+* Local source index caching is now /much/ faster.  It now using Marshal
+  rather than Yaml.
+
+* The update command now supports a --system option to update the
+  RubyGems software its self.  After installing 0.8.5, updating RubyGems
+  will be a one step process.
+
+* Dropped that really irritating warning about generating RDocs for
+  packages that didn't specify it had an RDoc.  No one really cared
+  about the message and it was confusing to new users.
+
+* Errors encountered while using require now corrctly reported.
+
+* Misc. bug fixes.  See the ChangeLog file for details.
+
+== Thanks
+
+I wish to give a special thanks to Lyle Johnson, Austing Ziegler, and
+Ksaper Schiess for the patches they provided.  And a big thanks to
+Martin Ankerl for the HTML template upgrade to the gem_server package.
+It looks really great.
+
+Keep those gems coming!
+
+-- Jim & Chad (for the RubyGems team)