Launchy Changelog¶ ↑

Version 2.5.2 - 2022-12-27¶ ↑

• Update Addressable - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/pull/145 - JamieKDonnelly

• Fix deprecated usage of Object#=~ - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/pull/138 - marcrohloff

• Move to sempahore for matrix builds and macos tests

Version 2.5.0 - 2020-02-27¶ ↑

• Update depedencies

• Update minimum ruby level

• Move to kde-open on KDE - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/pull/105 - wstephenson

• Applied some grammer / spelling fixes - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/pull/130 - jeremymoritz

• Pathname instances do not raise exceptions when opening local files - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/101 - dmke

• Add a fallback console browsers - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/93 - trejkaz

Version 2.4.3 - 2014-11-03¶ ↑

• Update documentation - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/pull/81 - supremebeing7

• Fix launching of exo-open for XFCE - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/82 - dsandstrom

• Add iceweasel as a fallback browser - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/pull/92 - jackturnbull

• Reopen $stderr in really bad situation - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/pull/77 - infertux

Version 2.4.2 - 2013-11-28¶ ↑

• Fix kde issue - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/72 - colbell

Version 2.4.1 - 2013-11-26¶ ↑

• Abstract out the argv of the commandline - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/71

Version 2.4.0 - 2013-11-12¶ ↑

• Support Launchy.open( url, :debug => true ) - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/63 - schmich

• Fix inconsistencies in debug? and dry_run? methods - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/63 - schmich

• Fix detection of missing *nix desktops - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/70

• Fix running tests in bare Linux environment - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/67 - gioele

• Fix mistaking windows drive as uri schema - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/65

• Attempt fixing windows start command oddities, again - github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/62

Version 2.3.0 - 2013-04-11¶ ↑

• Add the option to call a block on error instead of raising an exception

Version 2.2.0 - 2013-02-06¶ ↑

• Change XFCE detection to not depend on grep github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/52 - bogdan

• Suppress forked process output github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/51

• Display help/usage if no url is given github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/54

• Detect the fluxbox environment github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/53

• Automatically detect http url’s if they are missing the http:// github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/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 github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/45

Version 2.1.1 - 2012-07-28¶ ↑

• Update addressable runtime dependency github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/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 github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/42

• Add LAUNCHY_DRY_RUN environment variable (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 github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/33

Version 2.0.4 - 2011-07-23¶ ↑

• Fix windows start commandline github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/5

• Add capability to open local files with no file: scheme present github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/29

• Added rake how_to_contribute task github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/30

• Make better decisions on when to do shell escaping github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/31

• Switch to Addressable::URI so UTF-8 urls may be parsed. github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy/issues/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