ZenWeb Version History

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2.18.0 / 2004-12-20

3 minor enhancements
- Enhanced GenericRenderer.scan_region to make it much easier for developers.
- Added CalendarRenderer.
- Enhanced HtmlTableRenderer to be more customizable.
2 bug fixes
- Cleaned up FileAttachmentRenderer using new scan_region.
- Test cleanup.

2.17.0 / 2004-03-17

3 minor enhancements
- Added FileAttachmentRenderer
- Added ordered HTML list support with the "=" delimiter
- Workaround added until a bug is fixed in ruby (should be in 1.8.2). This speeds up ZenWeb by 50% on my website.
1 bug fixes
- Couldn't call parent on the top page.

2.16.0 / 2004-02-26

11 minor enhancements
- Added HtmlTableRenderer and tests.
- Added ZenWebsite, creates Makefile, and data dir with minimal site.
- Added better debugging output for undefined metadata variable access.
- Added caching of eval'd strings in MetadataRenderer.
- Added displayBadMetadata method that reports bad metadata access and stale definitions.
- Added the apache rule to Makefile and ZenWebpage.rb.
- Added the start of a FAQ to the demo pages.
- Added two helper methods link and img, to clean up metadata files.
- Extended ZenWebpage to include creating generic Makefiles.
- Lots of cleanup and (minor) optimization in the renderers.
- MetadataRenderer.include now properly does relative paths.
15 bug fixes
- Added RUBYFLAGS to Makefile.
- Added a new metatag 'style' to ZenWeb for short CSS snippets.
- Added geourl metadata
- Changes for 1.8 version of Test::Unit
- Clarified some documentation, esp in quickstart.
- Cleaned the documentation quite a bit using new metadata debugging.
- Fixed shutupwhile for ruby 1.8.0 with Matz's help.
- Fixed stupid Test::Unit breakage.
- Minor test refactoring.
- Renamed demo to docs to clear up user confusion.
- Retired zentestrunner.
- RubyCodeRenderer updated for changes to xmp. Less fragile now.
- Updated version.
- ZenWeb.rb will use "html" if source dir is "data".
- make install now sets permissions on scripts.

2.15.0 / 2003-02-04

2 minor enhancements
- Added MetadataRenderer.include and tests. I can finally render my documentation online without duplicating it in my source tree!
- 'force' = true as a metadata variable forces page rebuild. Good for includes.
4 bug fixes
- Massively revamped the history file to work w/in ZenWeb.
- Enhanced html list tests to ensure it worked at many levels.
- Hash to DL conversion now (finally!) preserves order.
- Moved run_all_tests_with into zentestrunner.rb.

2.14.1 / 2002-10-06

2 bug fixes
- RelativeRenderer was busted w/ '#location' urls.
- tests using 'touch' didn't work on some linux distros.

2.14.0 / 2002-09-28

1 minor enhancement
- Added many tests to bring it to ZenTest 1.0 compliancy.
4 bug fixes
- Renamed ZenTest to ZenTestCase.
- ZenDocument#addSubpage tests the type and throws if bad.
- CompositeRenderer#addRenderer checks the types.
- StupidRenderer wasn't compliant to the new GenericRenderer API.

2.14.0 / 2002-09-28

1 minor enhancement
- Added many tests to bring it to ZenTest 1.0 compliancy.
4 bug fixes
- Renamed ZenTest to ZenTestCase.
- ZenDocument#addSubpage tests the type and throws if bad.
- CompositeRenderer#addRenderer checks the types.
- StupidRenderer wasn't compliant to the new GenericRenderer API.

2002-09-02 2.13.1

2 bug fixes
- Fixed a big rendering bug. It escaped my tests because of a race condition.
- Added optional charset variable to HtmlTemplateRenderer.

2002-08-31 2.13.0

2 major enhancements
- Architectural change: render methods now take and return a single string.
- Reduced runtime by about 20%.
4 minor enhancements
- Fixed use of regular expressions that caused incompatibilities between 1.6.4, 1.6.7, and 1.7.2. Needs testing.
- Modified RelativeRenderer to NoOp if ruby < 1.6.7.
- Updated sitemaps now cause re-rendering of entire site. (disabled-minor bug)
- Added GenericRenderer#result
5 bug fixes
- Moved several documents to design directory. Updated manifest.
- Moved ZenDocument#createList and createHash to ZenWeb/TextToHtmlRenderer.
- Stripped out old profiling code.
- Removed all existing warnings from ruby 1.7.2
- (Re)Moved dependencies for renderers in ZenWeb.rb.

2002-08-29 2.12.1

1 bug fix
- Added StupidRenderer, which is so stupid that I thought I'd list it as a bug instead of a minor enhancement. :) The cool thing is that this was written at a Seattle.rb meeting as a demo and it only took 20 seconds for the first iteration!

2002-08-19 2.12.0

2 minor enhancements
- Added TocRenderer code and tests. Using it in the demo as well...
- Added Renderers page to demo.
3 bug fixes
- Fixed some parsing errors when used w/ ruby 1.7. Tests clean in 1.6 and 1.7.
- Moved TestMetadata in TestZenWeb and clumped the renderers together.
- switched to RUBY variable in Makefile for testing in multiple versions.

2002-08-16 2.11.1

1 bug fix
- Wrote Customizing document for those who want to really tweak their site.

2002-08-15 2.11.0

1 minor enhancement
- ZenWeb.rb: Split out all renderers into separate files and modified renderer instantiation to ensure they are loaded dynamically.
3 bug fixes
- TestZenWeb: got to work w/ new split structure.
- demo: added (mostly empty) customizing page.
- Makefile: added requirements checker and massive improvements to install.

2002-08-13 2.10.0

4 minor enhancements
- Overhauled demo pages. Documented special variables and much more.
- Extended ZenWebpage.rb to deal w/ metadata.txt and SiteMap files.
- Added demo/Presentation.
- Added heirarchy.png and .tgif.
4 bug fixes
- Deleted design.obj and objectmodel.obj in favor of heirarchy.tgif.
- Fixed version number, I had kept and released a mislabeled beta by accident.
- Improved banner to point to zenspider.com.
- Updated Manifest.txt, no more stale stuff.

2002-08-11 2.9.1

2 bug fixes
- Fixed REQUIREMENTS.txt (minor).
- Fixed SiteMapRenderer indentation for ~user sites.

2002-08-06 2.9.0

2 minor enhancements
- Added RelativeRenderer to convert urls to relative where possible.
- Improved tests and test content.

2002-08-03 2.8.1

3 bug fixes
- Removed "mailto:" from MADE metadata to have anti-spam links.
- Allow for a backslashed colon to prevent automatic url conversion.
- Fixed demo and overhauled it's documentation.

2002-05-29 2.8.0

2 minor enhancements
- Added ruby code interpolation in MetadataRenderer
- Cut (wallclock) runtime for large sites by 50%. ~25% for smaller sites.
4 bug fixes
- Added a INSTALL section to the readme.
- Got rid of extra xxx test directory and fixed tests.
- Added ZenWebsite.banner method and switched to it in cmdline tools and tests.
- Improved metadata usage documentation.

2002-05-17 2.7.4

4 bug fixes
- Added a 'demo' rule to the makefile.
- Added a requirements section to the readme.
- Modified incremental build tests to be much faster. Requires 'touch'.
- demo/... Updated old python based demo ... oops.

2002-05-14 2.7.3

3 bug fixes
- Implemented test_load, test_loadFromDirectory, test_renderContent_foot.
- Added -I. to Makefile invocation of tests.
- Deleted Metadata#save and corresponding test. Yeah! Less code!

2002-04-07 2.7.2

2 bug fixes
- Updated to use Test::Unit instead of deprecated RUNIT.
- Fixed all tests. Clean run!

2002-04-07 2.7.1

1 bug fix
- Synced version to new revisionist history version number.

NOTE: all versions below this line are essentially a revisionist history.

2002-03-31 2.7.0

2 major enhancements
- Fixed RubyCodeRenderer!!!! (sorta)
- Added ZenWebpage.rb

2002-01-19 2.6.1

1 bug fix
- Allowed #{ to prevent interpolation. Helps w/ Ruby quickref.

2001-08-24 2.6.0

2 major enhancements
- Extended to be able to do incremental builds.
- Tool is damn cool now!
2 minor enhancements
- Improved unit tests for incremental builds.
- Profiled to enhance small changesets in incremental builds.

2001-08-07 2.5.0

3 minor enhancements
- Tests exit w/ test result count.
- TestZenWeb.rb: Improved tests. started working on differential build
- tests.
- ZenWeb.rb: Stubbed newerThanTarget. Sorted some stuff for testing.

2001-04-14 2.4.0

3 minor enhancements
- Added CompositeRenderer and StandardRenderer to make life easier.
- Added test for navbar generation.
- Added tilde test files.
1 bug fix
- Removed a redundant refactor tag by renaming to refactee.

2001-03-30 2.3.0

1 major enhancement
- Added tweak to make tilde sites work correctly.
2 minor enhancements
- Added test for tilde sites.
- Added Makefile
1 bug fix
- Fixed some docs.

2001-03-08 2.2.1

3 bug fixes
- Fixed renderer list.
- Added accessor for testing. Cleaned some html.
- Wrote tests for generic renderer.

2001-03-07 2.2.0

12 minor enhancements
- Added some refactored renderers to renderers list.
- Fixed some tags. Refactored some renderers.
- Added some tests for newly separated renderers.
- Started cleaning up some of the little design things.
- Knocked off several tags: cleanup, refactoring, and wrote tests.
- Added a test for hash2html.
- Fixed several failed tests.
- Switched some accessors to only be defined during testing.
- Switched TestZenWebsite to subclass ZenTest.
- Added several tests. Fixed some.
- Switched TestZenSiteMap to subclass TestZenDocument.
- Added dictionary lists for testing.
2 bug fixes
- Fixed Metadata#initialize.
- Added tests for Metadata#initialize.

2001-03-05 2.1.0

15 minor enhancements
- (originally 2.0.0 - first time version was added)
- Added ZenDocument#createHash as an analog to createList.
- Added HtmlRenderer#hash2html
- Added Text2HtmlRenderer extensions for dictionary lists.
- Added tests for all new features, and some old ones.
- Added content setter if testing.
- Added tests for footer and header renderers.
- Moved TESTING declaration to be global
- Added TESTING variable for verbose-ness only when actually running.
- Added test for non-existant renderers.
- Added doctype.
- Modified how banner is used to make it look much better.
- Modified TextToHTMLRenderer to re-split lines more properly.
- Started to add RubyCodeRenderer, but am having problems w/ it.
- Added tons 'o docs.
1 bug fix
- Corrected date

2001-02-13 2.0.1

2 minor enhancements
- Added design docs
- Added a test suite

2001-02-13 2.0.0

1 major enhancement
- First fully working version in Ruby.

2001-01-29 2.0.0 alpha

1 major enhancement
- Started ruby project.