is gulpfile.coffee supported out of the box with gulp >= 3.7.0?

After reading #103, #123, and #452, I got impression that gulpfile.coffee is supported out of the box with gulp >= 3.7.0. Is that true?

For me, it fails on win8.0 x64 with node 0.10.32 and local+global gulp 3.8.8.

Steps to reproduce:

1. mkdir test && cd test
2. echo require 'gulp' > gulpfile.coffee on windows, or echo "require 'gulp'" > gulpfile.coffee on linux/mac
3. npm install -g gulp
4. npm install gulp coffee-script
5. gulp

Expected result is gulp complaining about missing default task. Actual result:

D:\test\gulpfile.coffee:1
tion (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { gulp = require 'gulp'
                                                                        ^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected string
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Liftoff.handleArguments (C:\Users\x\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\gulp\bin\gulp.js:108:3)
    at Liftoff.launch (C:\Users\x\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\gulp\node_modules\liftoff\index.js:143:6)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\x\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\gulp\bin\gulp.js:59:5)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)

Both the old workarounds do work:

1. either gulp --require coffee-script/register
2. or echo require('coffee-script/register'); require('./gulpfile.coffee'); > gulpfile.js before gulp

[tkellen]

This is expected. Gulp does not require coffee-script to function properly. If we bundle coffee-script we have to release a new version of Gulp when coffee-script changes. Installing locally is the best/recommended practice.

[brunocoelho]

I had this problem today using gulp@3.9.1 and I had to install coffee-script locally in order to make it work.