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20 Dec 2007
1.0.0 Released
by fred, the rubygems robot
Major New Features Include:
- RubyGems warns about various problems with gemspecs during gem building
- More-consistent versioning for the RubyGems software
Other Changes Include:
- Fixed various bugs and problems with installing gems on Windows
- Fixed using
gem serverfor installing gems - Various operations are even more verbose with –verbose
- Built gems are now backwards compatible with 0.9.4
- Improved detection of RUBYOPT loading rubygems
ruby setup.rbnow has a –help option- Gem::Specification#bindir is now respected on installation
- Executable stubs can now be installed to match ruby’s name, so if ruby is installed as ‘ruby18’, foo_exec will be installed as ‘foo_exec18’
gem unpackcan now unpack into a specific directory with –target- OpenSSL is no longer required by default
Deprecations and Deletions:
- Kernel#require_gem has been removed
- Executables without a shebang will not be wrapped in a future version, this may cause such executables to fail to operate on installation
- Gem::Platform constants other than RUBY and CURRENT have been removed
- Gem::RemoteInstaller was removed
- Gem::Specification#test_suite_file and #test_suite_file= are deprecated in favor of #test_file and #test_file=
- Gem::Specification#autorequire= has been deprecated
- Time::today will be removed in a future version