CHANGES

Path: CHANGES
Last Update: Fri Mar 09 21:42:31 +0000 2012

0.6.0 - 11-Dec-2011

  • Switched Unix code to use FFI.
  • Removed all of the C related tasks from the Rakefile and added the gem:build and gem:install tasks.
  • Internal directory layout changes, with appropriate changes to the gemspec.

0.5.3 - 7-May-2009

  • Altered the Uptime.seconds implementation on Linux so that it works with both Ruby 1.8.x and 1.9.x. Thanks go to Alexey Chebotar for the spot.

0.5.2 - 13-Dec-2008

  • Fixed a date/time issue in the Windows version caused by Ruby itself.
  • Fixed the Uptime.seconds, Uptime.minutes and Uptime.hours methods on MS Windows.
  • Renamed the test file to ‘test_sys_uptime.rb’.
  • Some minor updates to the Rakefile.

0.5.1 - 26-Jul-2007

  • Fixed bug in the MS Windows version caused by incorrect parsing of an MS specific date format (caused by a bug in Ruby 1.8.6). Thanks go to Robert H. for the spot.
  • Inlined the Rake installation tasks, so the install.rb file has been removed.
  • Added an ‘install_gem’ Rake task, and updated the README installation instructions.

0.5.0 - 30-Mar-2007

  • For platforms that use C code, the code now always uses the sysctl() function if supported by your system. This replaces the platform specific checks I was doing for the various BSD flavors.
  • Fix for OS X - the Uptime.boot_time method now works.
  • UptimeError is now Uptime::Error.
  • Improved RDoc in the uptime.c source code.
  • Added a Rakefile - users should now use the ‘test’ and ‘install’ rake tasks.
  • Updates to the MANIFEST, README and uptime.txt files.

0.4.5 - 19-Nov-2006

  • Internal layout changes, minor doc updates and gemspec improvements.
  • No code changes.

0.4.4 - 30-Jun-2006

  • Added inline rdoc documentation to the source files.
  • Added a gemspec.

0.4.3 - 18-Dec-2005

  • Changed the Linux version to pure Ruby. The current method of determining uptime in unix.c does not work in Linux kernel 2.6+. So, from now on it reads out of /proc/uptime.

0.4.2 - 6-May-2005

  • Fixed a potential boot_time bug.
  • Removed the version.h file. It‘s no longer needed since the Windows version is pure Ruby.
  • NetBSD 2.x and FreeBSD 5.x now supported.
  • Removed the INSTALL file. Installation instructions are now in the README file.
  • Removed the uptime.rd file. You can generate html documentation by running rdoc over the uptime.txt file.
  • Made most documents rdoc friendly.
  • Moved project to RubyForge.

0.4.1 - 14-Dec-2004

  • Moved freebsd code into unix.c file.
  • Should now work past 249 days (2**31) on systems that have utmpx.h.
  • Fixed a bug with regards to boot_time, where it was possible that it would simply be empty.

0.4.0 - 8-Jul-2004

  • Removed all reference to the CLK_TCK constant, as per documentation from Richard Stevens that it is deprecated and that sysconf() should be used instead (well, I knew about this, but ignored it until now).
  • Scrapped the C version for Windows in favor of a pure Ruby version that uses win32ole + WMI.
  • Added a boot_time method for Unix systems (Windows already had this).
  • Added an UptimeError class on Unix systems (and replaced UptimeException on Windows).
  • Modified an internal function to raise an UptimeError if the times() function fails. Also, it now returns an unsigned long instead of a plain long.
  • Replaced the two different test suites with a single, unified test suite.
  • Cleaned up the extconf.rb script. I now assume that TestUnit is installed.
  • Removed the load_avg method (which was never advertised and which I hope you weren‘t using). You can find a load_avg method in the sys-cpu package.
  • Changed uptime.rd2 to uptime.rd to be consistent with my other packages.
  • Removed the uptime.html file - you may generate that on your own.
  • Added warranty and license info.

0.3.2 - 30-Dec-2003

  • Cleaned up some warnings that showed up with -Wall on some unix platforms (int vs long format, explicit include)
  • Minor test suite and extconf.rb changes

0.3.1 - 25-Jun-2003

  • Modified test files to handle HP-UX extensions
  • Minor doc updates
  • Added the dhms() method. Actually, this was in the 0.3.0 release, I just forgot to mention it in this file :)

0.3.0 - 22-Jun-2003

  • Added OS X support - thanks go to Mike Hall for the patch
  • Fixed incorrect values in FreeBSD (again Mike Hall)
  • Modified tc_unix.rb test suite to handle OS X, along with a bit
  • of minor cleanup
  • Removed VERSION class method. Use the constant instead
  • Separated FreeBSD/OS X source into its own file (freebsd.c). The ifdefs were starting to get too ugly for me

0.2.1 - 13-May-2003

  • Fixed bug in extconf.rb file, and made some major changes
  • Modified test.rb for those without TestUnit
  • Modified TestUnit tests - some bogus tests were removed
  • Added a README file with some additional info
  • Created a version.h file, so that I can keep the VERSION number in one place
  • Docs automatically included in doc directory (i.e. no more interactive document creation)

0.2.0 - 13-Mar-2003

  • Added MS Windows support
  • Added a VERSION constant
  • Added a test suite (for those with TestUnit installed)
  • Internal directory layout change
  • uptime.c is now split into unix.c and windows.c (and linked appropriately)
  • Changelog and Manifest are now CHANGES and MANIFEST, respectively
  • Many changes to extconf.rb

0.1.3 - 6-Jan-2003

  • Added a VERSION class method
  • Added a copyright notice
  • Fixed up the docs a bit and moved them to the doc directory
  • Changed the tarball name to match the RAA package name
  • Modified test.rb script to make it better
  • Changed install instructions slightly

0.1.2 - 25-Aug-2002

  • Slight change to preprocessor commands to avoid redefining CLK_TCK on those systems that define it in time.h
  • Added an INSTALL file

0.1.1 - 21-Jun-2002

  • The CLK_TCK constant wasn‘t necessarily being set correctly, which could lead to some odd results. This has been fixed.

0.1.0 - 17-Jun-2002

  • Initial release

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