From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2012-03-21T08:56:38+09:00
Subject: [ANN] hoe 3.0.0 Released

hoe version 3.0.0 has been released!



Hoe is a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It helps you
manage, maintain, and release your project and includes a dynamic
plug-in system allowing for easy extensibility. Hoe ships with
plug-ins for all your usual project tasks including rdoc generation,
testing, packaging, deployment, and announcement..

See class rdoc for help. Hint: `ri Hoe` or any of the plugins listed
below.

For extra goodness, see: http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/Hoe.pdf

Changes:

### 3.0.0 / 2012-03-20

* 3 major enhancements:

  * Added activate_plugin_deps phase to plugin loading.
  * Removed long deprecated Hoe.new { block }.
  * Removed long deprecated handling of improper dependencies.

* 3 minor enhancements:

  * Added deprecation warnings to Hoe#url and Hoe#url=. Already deprecated for 9 mo.
  * Reworked all the plugins to use activate_XXX_deps, as necessary.
  * Switched internal usage of #url to #urls.

* 2 bug fixes:

  * Fixed failures in the publish_docs task when remote directory times cannot be changed (such as on rubyforge).
  * Fixed isolate setup for the racc plugin