1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 3.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009
5 - Promote to stable release.
7 3.29_01 - Thu May 7 20:22:00 2009
9 - Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
11 - Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
12 extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
14 - VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
15 (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
17 3.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
19 - Promote to stable release.
21 3.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
23 - In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
24 otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
26 3.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
28 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
29 slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
31 3.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
33 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
34 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
36 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
38 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
39 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
40 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
43 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
44 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
46 3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
48 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
49 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
50 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're
51 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
54 3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
56 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
57 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
60 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
62 3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
64 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
65 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
66 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
67 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
69 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
70 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
72 3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
74 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
75 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
77 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
79 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
80 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
81 because this fact can vary on different volumes.
83 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
84 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
87 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
89 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
91 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
94 3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
96 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
97 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
99 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
100 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will
101 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
102 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
105 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
106 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
108 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
110 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
111 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
113 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
114 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
117 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
118 hodgepodge of various numbers.
120 3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
122 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
123 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
125 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
126 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
128 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
129 avoid using it when in the core.
131 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
133 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
134 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
136 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
137 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
139 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
141 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
142 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
144 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
146 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
147 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
148 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
149 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
152 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
154 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
155 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
156 letter. [Reported by several parties]
158 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
160 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
161 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
163 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
164 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
165 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
166 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
169 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
170 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
171 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
172 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
173 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
175 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
177 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
178 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
179 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
180 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
181 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
182 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
184 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
185 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
186 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
187 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
189 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
190 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
193 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
195 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
196 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
198 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
199 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
201 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
202 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
204 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
206 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
207 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
208 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
209 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
210 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
211 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
213 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
215 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
216 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
218 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
219 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
220 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
222 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
223 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
224 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
225 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
226 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
227 by Eamon Daly and others]
229 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
231 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
232 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
233 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
234 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
235 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
236 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
238 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
239 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
240 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
241 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
242 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
244 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
245 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
246 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
248 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
249 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
250 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
253 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
254 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
256 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
258 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
259 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
260 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
261 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
262 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
263 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
265 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
266 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
267 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
269 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
271 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
272 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
273 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
274 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
275 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
277 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
278 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
280 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
281 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
282 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
284 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
286 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
288 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
289 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
291 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
294 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
296 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
297 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
299 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
301 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
302 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
303 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
305 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
306 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
307 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
308 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
310 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
312 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
313 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
314 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
317 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
318 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
320 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
321 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
322 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
323 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
325 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
327 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
328 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
330 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
332 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
333 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
335 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
338 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
339 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
340 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
342 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
343 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
345 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
347 (No changes in functionality)
349 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
352 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
353 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
355 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
357 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
358 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
360 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
361 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
362 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
365 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
366 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
368 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
370 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
371 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
372 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
373 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
374 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
377 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
378 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
381 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
382 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
384 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
386 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
387 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
389 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
390 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
391 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
393 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
394 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
395 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
397 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
399 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
400 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
402 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
403 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
405 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
406 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
407 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
409 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
410 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
411 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
413 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
414 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
416 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
418 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
419 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
421 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
422 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
423 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
425 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
426 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
428 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
429 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
430 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
432 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
433 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
434 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
435 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
437 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
438 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
439 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
440 with the rest of the stuff.
442 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
443 older perls like 5.005.
445 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
448 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
449 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
451 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
453 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
454 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
456 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
457 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
459 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
461 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
462 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
463 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
464 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
465 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
468 ==================================================================
469 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
470 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
471 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
472 ==================================================================
474 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
476 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
477 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
479 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
480 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
482 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
484 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
485 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
487 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
489 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
490 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
491 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
492 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
493 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
495 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
497 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
498 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
500 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
502 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
503 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
504 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
506 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
508 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
509 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
512 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
513 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
515 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
516 path separator is ':'.
518 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
519 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
520 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
522 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
525 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
527 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
528 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
531 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
533 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
534 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
535 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
537 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
539 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
540 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
541 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
543 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
545 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
546 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
547 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
548 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
550 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
552 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
553 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
555 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
558 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
560 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
561 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
563 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
565 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
566 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
569 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
570 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
572 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
574 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
576 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
577 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
578 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
579 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
581 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
582 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
584 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
587 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
588 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
590 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
593 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
595 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
596 release by Ken Williams.
598 ==================================================================
599 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
600 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
601 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
602 ==================================================================
604 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
606 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
607 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
608 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
610 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
612 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
613 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
615 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
616 path. [Craig A. Berry]
618 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
620 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
621 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
622 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
625 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
626 class. [Alexander Farber]
628 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
630 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
632 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
633 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
635 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
637 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
638 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
640 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
642 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
643 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
644 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
645 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
646 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
648 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
649 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
650 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
652 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
654 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
655 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
656 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
657 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
658 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
659 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
661 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
662 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
663 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
665 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
666 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
667 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
668 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
669 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
670 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
672 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
673 and now it returns '/'.
675 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
677 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
679 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
680 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
682 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
685 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
688 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
689 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
691 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
692 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
695 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
696 tests added for them:
697 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
698 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
699 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
700 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
701 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
702 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
703 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
705 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
706 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
707 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
709 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
711 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
712 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
713 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
716 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
719 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
720 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
721 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
722 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
723 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
724 broken relative path previous versions returned.
726 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
727 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
729 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
731 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
733 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
735 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
736 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
738 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
739 on platforms where it can't run properly.
741 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
743 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
744 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
745 from what I can tell, are listed here.
747 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
748 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
749 done by Thomas Wegner.
751 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
753 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
754 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
756 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
759 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
760 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
762 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
765 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
769 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
771 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
772 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
774 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
775 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
776 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
778 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
781 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
782 on its final argument.
784 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
787 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
788 relativity when no base is given.
790 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
793 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
794 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
796 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
798 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
800 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
801 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
802 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
803 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
804 needing to update the perl repository.
805 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
806 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
807 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
808 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
809 arrives where method prototypes are honored.