New in this version

Features

• Set vari­ables from the com­mand line
• Al­low pass­ing out­put files as ar­gu­ments
• Au­to mode works bet­ter
• Han­dle bo­gus ar­gu­ments bet­ter
• Made --question more verbose, and only report stale tasks matching arguments
• New -k option to keep going after errors.
• Switched to croupi­er main, sup­ports de­pend­ing on di­rec­to­ries
• Au­to­mat­i­cal­ly build bi­na­ries for re­lease
• Gen­er­al house­keep­ing
• Build it­self us­ing a Hace­file in­stead of a Make­file
• Re­ject if two tasks share out­puts (lim­i­ta­tion of croupi­er for now)

Bugs Fixed:

• Warn about un­known tasks used in com­mand line
• Tasks with out­puts passed wrong tar­get to croupi­er
• Com­mand out­put was not vis­i­ble in the log.

Full Changel­og: v0.1.2...v0.1.3

Ver­sion 0.5.2 of coupier, a crys­tal li­brary to do dataflow ori­ent­ed pro­gram­ming.

Changes:

• Bugs fixed when us­ing au­to mode with de­pen­den­cies that are di­rec­to­ries.

Full Changel­og: v0.5.1...v0.5.2

• Add sup­port for tasks de­pend­ing on di­rec­to­ries
• New fast_dirs mode in TaskManager for cheaper directory checks
• Add progress call­back
• Add sup­port for pass­ing blocks to Tasks:

Croupier::Task.new output: "fileA", inputs: ["in­put.txt"] do
  puts "task1 run­ning"
  File.read("in­put.txt").downcase
end

Full Changel­og: v0.5.0...v0.5.1

What's Changed

• New TaskManager.auto_mode? property
• Yield on spawn to make con­cur­ren­cy more use­ful
• More ef­fi­cient in­put han­dling
• Fix dead­lock­ing bug in par­al­lel run­ner
• Warn or er­ror when tasks are next in line but not ready

Full Changel­og: v0.4.1...v0.5.0

What's new in v0.4.1?

• Add mergeable flag for tasks (default true)
• Added TaskManager.depends_on function