CHANGES - sys-host-0.6.2 Documentation

0.6.2 - 20-Mar-2010¶ ↑

Changed license to Artistic 2.0.
The Host.host_id method has been modified to return a hex value on MS Windows in order to be consistent with other platforms.
Some internal directory layout changes and corresponding changes to the Rakefile.
Additional Rakefile tasks that remove the need for some code that was previously inlined into the gemspec directly.
Updated the gemspec, including an updated description, the addition of a license, and changing test-unit to a development dependency.

Added the host_id method for Windows, which just returns the MAC address.
Fixed an issue in the Host.ip_addr method for MS Windows where multiple ip addresses might not be handled properly. Thanks go to Murmansk Manny for the spot and patch.
Updated the gemspec to include all .c and .h files now so that it should successfully build and install on all Unix platforms.
Rakefile fix for MS Windows for the install task.
The test file is now “test_sys_host.rb”.

Now supports OS X!
Added the Host.host_id class method.
Bug/warning fix for OS X.
HostError is now Host::Error.
Added a Rakefile, including tasks for installation and testing.
Fixed the gemspec (I hope).
Lots of internal reorganization, including the removal of the install.rb file. That's handled by the Rakefile.

Replaced Windows C extension with pure Ruby version, using WMI + OLE.
Added an additional class method called 'info' that returns a HostInfo struct. Currently on Windows only.
Removed the block form of Host.ip_addr. It now simply returns an Array.
Renamed and revamped test suite.
Moved test.rb to doc/examples
Removed the host.html file.
Replaced previous exception classes with a single exception class, HostError, and moved it under the Sys module namespace.

Added MS Windows support
Modified extconf.rb file - generic test script now in its own file (test/test.rb) and the dynamic rd2 stuff was removed, in addition to proper handling for MS Windows
rd2, txt and html docs now included by default
Removed VERSION() class method (use the constant instead)
Added a universal constants.h file to store VERSION info, etc, that is common to all source files.
Added LICENSE info

Fix to make code C89 compliant so that older compilers don't choke.
Added a VERSION class method
Added a copyright notice
Moved README into doc/host.txt
Minor doc changes
Fixed extconf.rb file to include socket lib for Solaris. This was in 0.2.0 and was mistakenly left out of 0.3.0.

Reentrant (thread-safe) support added for ip_addr() method (for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris currently).
The file layout changed so that each platform has its own source file. This was done because different platforms have different implementations of gethostbyname_r(), if they have them at all. Some platforms (e.g. FreeBSD) use a different function altogether.
The file generic.c is used to create the source if the platform is not currently supported, or if gethostbyname_r() isn't found.
The FreeBSD implementation uses getipnodebyname() instead of gethostbyname(), if possible. According to the man page, it's thread safe.
Modifications to the extconf.rb file based on the above changes.
Added a default value of 16 for INET_ADDRSTRLEN.
Added a README file.

Added HostException and HostAddressException classes. These are raised in the event the gethostname or gethostbyname call fails, respectively.
Removed some unnecessary (and warning-causing) free calls.
Added an INSTALL file (installation instructions removed from core doc).

Got the BSD support working properly this time. Thanks to Sean Chittenden for providing BSD access.

Fixed a bug that would cause the ip_addr to segfault on some operating systems. Apparently ,trying to free memory on a null pointer is a bad thing. Hey, Solaris didn't complain! Thanks go to Han Holl for the spot.
On *BSD systems the 'netinet/in.h' file is now included (via the makefile). Thanks go to Magnus Stahre for the spot and the fix.
Changed the version number to be more “ruby compliant”