1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
5 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
6 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
7 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
10 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
11 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
13 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
14 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
15 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
16 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
18 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
20 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
21 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
23 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
25 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
26 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
28 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
31 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
32 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
33 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
35 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
36 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
38 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
40 (No changes in functionality)
42 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
45 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
46 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
48 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
50 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
51 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
53 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
54 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
55 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
58 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
59 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
61 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
63 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
64 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
65 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
66 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
67 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
70 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
71 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
74 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
75 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
77 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
79 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
80 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
82 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
83 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
84 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
86 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
87 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
88 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
90 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
92 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
93 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
95 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
96 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
98 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
99 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
100 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
102 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
103 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
104 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
106 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
107 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
109 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
111 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
112 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
114 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
115 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
116 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
118 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
119 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
121 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
122 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
123 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
125 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
126 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
127 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
128 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
130 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
131 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
132 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
133 with the rest of the stuff.
135 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
136 older perls like 5.005.
138 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
141 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
142 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
144 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
146 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
147 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
149 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
150 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
152 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
154 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
155 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
156 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
157 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
158 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
161 ==================================================================
162 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
163 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
164 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
165 ==================================================================
167 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
169 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
170 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
172 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
173 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
175 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
177 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
178 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
180 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
182 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
183 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
184 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
185 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
186 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
188 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
190 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
191 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
193 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
195 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
196 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
197 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
199 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
201 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
202 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
205 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
206 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
208 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
209 path separator is ':'.
211 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
212 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
213 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
215 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
218 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
220 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
221 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
224 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
226 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
227 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
228 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
230 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
232 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
233 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
234 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
236 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
238 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
239 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
240 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
241 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
243 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
245 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
246 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
248 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
251 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
253 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
254 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
256 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
258 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
259 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
262 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
263 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
265 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
267 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
269 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
270 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
271 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
272 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
274 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
275 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
277 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
280 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
281 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
283 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
286 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
288 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
289 release by Ken Williams.
291 ==================================================================
292 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
293 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
294 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
295 ==================================================================
297 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
299 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
300 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
301 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
303 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
305 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
306 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
308 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
309 path. [Craig A. Berry]
311 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
313 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
314 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
315 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
318 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
319 class. [Alexander Farber]
321 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
323 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
325 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
326 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
328 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
330 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
331 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
333 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
335 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
336 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
337 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
338 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
339 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
341 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
342 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
343 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
345 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
347 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
348 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
349 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
350 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
351 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
352 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
354 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
355 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
356 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
358 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
359 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
360 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
361 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
362 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
363 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
365 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
366 and now it returns '/'.
368 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
370 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
372 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
373 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
375 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
378 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
381 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
382 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
384 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
385 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
388 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
389 tests added for them:
390 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
391 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
392 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
393 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
394 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
395 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
396 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
398 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
399 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
400 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
402 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
404 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
405 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
406 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
409 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
412 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
413 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
414 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
415 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
416 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
417 broken relative path previous versions returned.
419 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
420 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
422 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
424 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
426 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
428 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
429 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
431 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
432 on platforms where it can't run properly.
434 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
436 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
437 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
438 from what I can tell, are listed here.
440 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
441 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
442 done by Thomas Wegner.
444 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
446 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
447 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
449 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
452 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
453 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
455 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
458 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
462 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
464 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
465 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
467 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
468 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
469 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
471 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
474 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
475 on its final argument.
477 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
480 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
481 relativity when no base is given.
483 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
486 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
487 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
489 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
491 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
493 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
494 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
495 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
496 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
497 needing to update the perl repository.
498 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
499 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
500 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
501 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
502 arrives where method prototypes are honored.