All releases information has been migrated to GitHub Releases:
https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build/releases
This frees core contributors from having to maintain release notes in version
control, and regular contributors from wondering whether they need to edit
CHANGELOG while submitting a pull request.
Benefits of release notes being outside of version control are that they can be
edited post-release.
Seems like sed 4.1.5 on RHEL 5.3 doesn't support `-E`, and sed on OS X doesn't
support `-r` to activate the extended regexp mode. Best to avoid extended regexp
altogether for compatibility.
Fixes#495
The `-f` option allows for forcing installation of versions that already
exist in the environment. If that option isn't used, then an interactive
prompt is created which causes problems for non-interactive execution of
the command.
This change adds the `-s/--skip-existing` option to not install versions
that already exist, while still exiting as success.
Closes#543
If there already exists a valid tarball in the build location, e.g. as
artefact of a previous install using `--keep`, don't re-download the
file, as there is no need.
References #487
Previously, curl and wget were instructed to try to resume the download
if the destination file already exists. This is supposed to be done via
the "Range" HTTP header, but doesn't work well with CloudFront:
HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume.
CloudFront is supposed to support ranges, so I don't know what's going
on here. It might be failing only in case the existing file is a fully
downloaded tarball?
In any case, this disables resuming downloads and resorts to simply
re-downloading the tarball always, overwriting the existing file.
Fixes#487
Better to use -f than -e to check for a user-specified definition file.
With -e, if the user accidentally types the name of a directory (or, far
less likely, a device file) with the same name as the Ruby they're
trying to install, they end up with ruby-build doing absolutely nothing
at best, or an error message that could be pretty confusing at worst.
JRuby 9000 (the next major release) includes a backend that supports a
new JVM JIT compiler called Graal. Graal is based on OpenJDK but hasn't
been released yet.
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/graal/
