1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
4 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
5 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
6 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
9 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
11 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
12 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
13 letter. [Reported by several parties]
15 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
17 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
18 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
20 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
21 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
22 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
23 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
26 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
27 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
28 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
29 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
30 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
32 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
34 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
35 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
36 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
37 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
38 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
39 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
41 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
42 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
43 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
44 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
46 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
47 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
50 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
52 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
53 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
55 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
56 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
58 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
59 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
61 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
63 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
64 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
65 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
66 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
67 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
68 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
70 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
72 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
73 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
75 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
76 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
77 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
79 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
80 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
81 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
82 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
83 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
84 by Eamon Daly and others]
86 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
88 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
89 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
90 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
91 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
92 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
93 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
95 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
96 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
97 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
98 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
99 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
101 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
102 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
103 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
105 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
106 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
107 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
110 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
111 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
113 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
115 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
116 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
117 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
118 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
119 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
120 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
122 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
123 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
124 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
126 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
128 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
129 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
130 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
131 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
132 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
134 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
135 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
137 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
138 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
139 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
141 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
143 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
145 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
146 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
148 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
151 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
153 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
154 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
156 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
158 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
159 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
160 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
162 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
163 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
164 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
165 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
167 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
169 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
170 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
171 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
174 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
175 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
177 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
178 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
179 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
180 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
182 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
184 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
185 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
187 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
189 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
190 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
192 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
195 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
196 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
197 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
199 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
200 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
202 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
204 (No changes in functionality)
206 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
209 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
210 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
212 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
214 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
215 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
217 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
218 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
219 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
222 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
223 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
225 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
227 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
228 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
229 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
230 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
231 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
234 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
235 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
238 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
239 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
241 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
243 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
244 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
246 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
247 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
248 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
250 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
251 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
252 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
254 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
256 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
257 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
259 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
260 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
262 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
263 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
264 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
266 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
267 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
268 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
270 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
271 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
273 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
275 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
276 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
278 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
279 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
280 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
282 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
283 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
285 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
286 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
287 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
289 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
290 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
291 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
292 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
294 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
295 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
296 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
297 with the rest of the stuff.
299 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
300 older perls like 5.005.
302 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
305 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
306 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
308 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
310 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
311 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
313 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
314 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
316 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
318 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
319 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
320 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
321 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
322 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
325 ==================================================================
326 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
327 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
328 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
329 ==================================================================
331 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
333 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
334 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
336 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
337 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
339 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
341 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
342 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
344 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
346 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
347 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
348 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
349 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
350 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
352 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
354 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
355 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
357 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
359 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
360 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
361 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
363 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
365 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
366 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
369 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
370 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
372 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
373 path separator is ':'.
375 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
376 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
377 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
379 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
382 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
384 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
385 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
388 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
390 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
391 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
392 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
394 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
396 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
397 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
398 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
400 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
402 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
403 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
404 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
405 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
407 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
409 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
410 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
412 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
415 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
417 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
418 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
420 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
422 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
423 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
426 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
427 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
429 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
431 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
433 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
434 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
435 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
436 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
438 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
439 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
441 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
444 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
445 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
447 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
450 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
452 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
453 release by Ken Williams.
455 ==================================================================
456 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
457 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
458 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
459 ==================================================================
461 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
463 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
464 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
465 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
467 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
469 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
470 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
472 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
473 path. [Craig A. Berry]
475 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
477 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
478 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
479 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
482 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
483 class. [Alexander Farber]
485 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
487 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
489 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
490 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
492 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
494 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
495 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
497 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
499 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
500 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
501 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
502 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
503 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
505 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
506 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
507 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
509 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
511 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
512 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
513 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
514 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
515 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
516 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
518 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
519 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
520 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
522 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
523 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
524 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
525 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
526 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
527 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
529 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
530 and now it returns '/'.
532 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
534 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
536 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
537 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
539 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
542 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
545 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
546 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
548 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
549 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
552 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
553 tests added for them:
554 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
555 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
556 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
557 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
558 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
559 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
560 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
562 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
563 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
564 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
566 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
568 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
569 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
570 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
573 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
576 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
577 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
578 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
579 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
580 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
581 broken relative path previous versions returned.
583 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
584 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
586 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
588 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
590 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
592 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
593 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
595 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
596 on platforms where it can't run properly.
598 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
600 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
601 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
602 from what I can tell, are listed here.
604 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
605 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
606 done by Thomas Wegner.
608 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
610 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
611 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
613 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
616 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
617 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
619 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
622 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
626 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
628 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
629 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
631 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
632 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
633 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
635 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
638 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
639 on its final argument.
641 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
644 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
645 relativity when no base is given.
647 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
650 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
651 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
653 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
655 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
657 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
658 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
659 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
660 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
661 needing to update the perl repository.
662 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
663 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
664 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
665 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
666 arrives where method prototypes are honored.