From: Lake Denman <lake@...>
Date: 2011-07-18T14:00:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] launchy v2.0.3 released

Nice work, Jeremy. `gem install launchy`.

Lake

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:01:58PM +0900, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
> launchy version 2.0.3
>     by Jeremy Hinegardner
>     http://www.copiousfreetime.org/projects/launchy
> 
> == DESCRIPTION
> 
> Launchy is helper class for launching cross-platform applications in a
> fire and forget manner.
> 
> There are application concepts (browser, email client, etc) that are
> common across all platforms, and they may be launched differently on
> each platform.  Launchy is here to make a common approach to launching
> external application from within ruby programs.
> 
>     Launchy.open( "http://www.ruby-lang.org/" )
> 
> == CHANGES with version 2.0.3
> 
> * Almost a complete rewrite
> * Add in Deprecated API wrappers that warn the user
> * Documentation updates explicitly stating the Public API
> * Increase test coverage
> * JRuby Support
> * Organization is such that it will be easier to add additional applications
> * Windows behavior possibly fixed, again
> 
> == UPGRADING
> 
> The previously published version of Launchy was 0.4.0. There have been so many
> changes, and a mistaken tag at 1.0.0, that I have decided to bump all the way
> to 2.0.x. 
> 
> I have attempted to keep backward compatibility with the previous examples. The 
> previous API examples of:
> 
>     Launchy::Browser.run("http://www.ruby-lang.org/")
> 
> and 
> 
>     Launchy::Browser.new.visit("http://www.ruby-lang.org/")
> 
> will still work, and you will get a deprecation notice, along with the line 
> of code you should probably update. For example, this is what would print out
> in the github gem if it was updated to use 2.0.x but not use the supported API.
> 
>     % gh home
>     WARNING: You made a call to a deprecated Launchy API. This call should be changed to 'Launchy.open( uri )'
>     WARNING: I think I was able to find the location that needs to be fixed. Please go look at:
>     WARNING: 
>     WARNING: /Users/jeremy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p334/gems/github-0.6.2/lib/commands/helpers.rb:275:in `open'
>     WARNING: helper :open do |url|
>     WARNING:   has_launchy? proc {
>     WARNING:     Launchy::Browser.new.visit url
>     WARNING:   }
>     WARNING: end
>     WARNING: 
>     WARNING: If this is not the case, please file a bug. Please file a bug at https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/new
> 
> 
> -- 
> ========================================================================
>  Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org 
> 
>