Launchy Changlog

Version 2.2.0 - 2013-02-06

• Change XFCE detection to not depend on grep (copiousfreetime/launchy#52 - thanks bogdan)

• Suppress forked process output (copiousfreetime/launchy#51)

• Display help/usage if no url is given (copiousfreetime/launchy#54)

• Detect the fluxbox environment (copiousfreetime/launchy#53)

• Automatically detect ‘http’ url’s if they are missing the ‘http://’ (copiousfreetime/launchy#55)

• Update to latest project management rake tasks

Version 2.1.2 - 2012-08-06

• Fix where HostOS would fail to convert to string on JRuby in 1.9 mode (copiousfreetime/launchy#45)

Version 2.1.1 - 2012-07-28

• Update addressable runtime dependency (copiousfreetime/launchy#47)

• Bring minitest and ffi development dependencies up to date

Version 2.1.0 - 2012-03-18

• Fix raising exception when no browser program found (copiousfreetime/launchy#42)

• Add LAUNCHY_DRY_RUN environment variable (thanks Mariusz Pietrzyk / wijet)

• Update dependencies

Version 2.0.5 - 2011-07-24

• Fix the case where $BROWSER is set and no *nix desktop was found (copiousfreetime/launchy#33)

Version 2.0.4 - 2011-07-23

• Fix windows ‘start’ commandline (copiousfreetime/launchy#5)

• Add capability to open local files with no file: scheme present (copiousfreetime/launchy#29)

• Added ‘rake how_to_contribute’ task (copiousfreetime/launchy#30)

• Make better decisions on when to do shell escaping (copiousfreetime/launchy#31)

• Switch to Addressable::URI so UTF-8 urls may be parsed. (copiousfreetime/launchy#32)

Version 2.0.3 - 2011-07-17

• Add in Deprecated API wrappers that warn the user

Version 2.0.2 - 2011-07-17

• Typo fixes from @mtorrent

• Documentation updates explicitly stating the Public API

• Increase test coverage

Version 2.0.1 - 2011-07-16

• Almost a complete rewrite

• JRuby Support

• Organization is such that it will be easier to add additional applications

• Windows behavior possibly fixed, again

Version 1.0.0 - 2011-03-17

• Add JRuby support (Stephen Judkins)

• Remove unused Paths module

• Switch to using bones

• Switch to use minitest

• NOTE, this version was never released.

Version 0.4.0 - 2011-01-27

• Add support for file:/// schema (postmodern)

Version 0.3.7 - 2010-07-19

• Fix launchy on windows (mikefarmer)

Version 0.3.6 - 2010-02-22

• add a test:spec task to run tests without rcov support

• added ‘testing’ os family for running tests

Version 0.3.5 - 2009-12-17

• clarify that launchy is under ISC license

• fix missing data file in released gem needed for running specs

Version 0.3.3 - 2009-02-19

• pass command line as discrete items to system() to avoid string interpretation by the system shell. (Suraj N. Kurapati)

• rework project layout and tasks

Version 0.3.2 - 2008-05-21

• detect aix and mingw as known operating systems.

Version 0.3.1 - 2007-09-08

• finalize the command line wrapper around the launchy library.

• added more tests

Version 0.3.0 - 2007-08-30

• reorganize the code structure, removing Spawnable namespace

• removed ‘do_magic’ method, changed it to ‘open’

• added override environment variable LAUNCHY_HOST_OS for testing

• fix broken cygwin support [Bug #13472]

Version 0.2.1 - 2007-08-18

• fix inability to find windows executables [Bug #13132]

Version 0.2.0 - 2007-08-11

• rework browser finding

• manual override with LAUNCHY_BROWSER environment variable

• on *nix use desktop application launcher with fallback to list of browsers

• On windows, switch to ‘start’ command and remove dependency on win32-process

• removed win32 gem

• Add debug output by setting LAUNCHY_DEBUG environment variable to ‘true’

Version 0.1.2 - 2007-08-11

• forked child exits without calling at_exit handlers

Version 0.1.1

• fixed rubyforge task to release mswin32 gem also

Version 0.1.0

• Initial public release

• switched to using fork to spawn process and require ‘win32/process’ if on windows

Version 0.0.2

• First attempt at using systemu to spawn processes

Version 0.0.1

• Initially working release

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