1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 - Apply patch from John Malmberg: (RT #42154)
4 "Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
5 extended character sets."
7 3.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
9 - Promote to stable release.
11 3.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
13 - In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
14 otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
16 3.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
18 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
19 slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
21 3.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
23 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
24 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
26 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
28 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
29 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
30 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
33 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
34 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
36 3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
38 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
39 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
40 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're
41 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
44 3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
46 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
47 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
50 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
52 3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
54 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
55 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
56 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
57 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
59 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
60 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
62 3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
64 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
65 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
67 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
69 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
70 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
71 because this fact can vary on different volumes.
73 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
74 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
77 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
79 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
81 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
84 3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
86 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
87 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
89 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
90 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will
91 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
92 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
95 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
96 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
98 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
100 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
101 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
103 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
104 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
107 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
108 hodgepodge of various numbers.
110 3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
112 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
113 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
115 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
116 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
118 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
119 avoid using it when in the core.
121 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
123 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
124 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
126 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
127 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
129 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
131 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
132 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
134 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
136 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
137 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
138 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
139 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
142 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
144 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
145 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
146 letter. [Reported by several parties]
148 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
150 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
151 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
153 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
154 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
155 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
156 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
159 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
160 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
161 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
162 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
163 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
165 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
167 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
168 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
169 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
170 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
171 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
172 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
174 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
175 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
176 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
177 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
179 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
180 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
183 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
185 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
186 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
188 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
189 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
191 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
192 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
194 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
196 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
197 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
198 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
199 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
200 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
201 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
203 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
205 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
206 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
208 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
209 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
210 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
212 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
213 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
214 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
215 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
216 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
217 by Eamon Daly and others]
219 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
221 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
222 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
223 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
224 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
225 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
226 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
228 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
229 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
230 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
231 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
232 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
234 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
235 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
236 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
238 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
239 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
240 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
243 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
244 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
246 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
248 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
249 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
250 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
251 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
252 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
253 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
255 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
256 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
257 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
259 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
261 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
262 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
263 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
264 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
265 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
267 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
268 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
270 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
271 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
272 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
274 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
276 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
278 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
279 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
281 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
284 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
286 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
287 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
289 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
291 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
292 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
293 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
295 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
296 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
297 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
298 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
300 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
302 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
303 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
304 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
307 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
308 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
310 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
311 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
312 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
313 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
315 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
317 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
318 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
320 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
322 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
323 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
325 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
328 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
329 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
330 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
332 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
333 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
335 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
337 (No changes in functionality)
339 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
342 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
343 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
345 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
347 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
348 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
350 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
351 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
352 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
355 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
356 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
358 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
360 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
361 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
362 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
363 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
364 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
367 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
368 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
371 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
372 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
374 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
376 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
377 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
379 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
380 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
381 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
383 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
384 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
385 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
387 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
389 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
390 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
392 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
393 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
395 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
396 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
397 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
399 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
400 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
401 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
403 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
404 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
406 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
408 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
409 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
411 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
412 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
413 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
415 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
416 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
418 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
419 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
420 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
422 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
423 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
424 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
425 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
427 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
428 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
429 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
430 with the rest of the stuff.
432 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
433 older perls like 5.005.
435 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
438 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
439 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
441 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
443 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
444 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
446 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
447 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
449 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
451 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
452 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
453 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
454 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
455 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
458 ==================================================================
459 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
460 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
461 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
462 ==================================================================
464 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
466 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
467 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
469 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
470 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
472 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
474 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
475 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
477 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
479 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
480 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
481 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
482 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
483 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
485 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
487 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
488 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
490 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
492 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
493 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
494 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
496 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
498 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
499 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
502 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
503 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
505 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
506 path separator is ':'.
508 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
509 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
510 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
512 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
515 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
517 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
518 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
521 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
523 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
524 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
525 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
527 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
529 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
530 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
531 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
533 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
535 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
536 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
537 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
538 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
540 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
542 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
543 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
545 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
548 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
550 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
551 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
553 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
555 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
556 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
559 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
560 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
562 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
564 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
566 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
567 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
568 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
569 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
571 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
572 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
574 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
577 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
578 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
580 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
583 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
585 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
586 release by Ken Williams.
588 ==================================================================
589 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
590 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
591 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
592 ==================================================================
594 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
596 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
597 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
598 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
600 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
602 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
603 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
605 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
606 path. [Craig A. Berry]
608 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
610 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
611 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
612 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
615 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
616 class. [Alexander Farber]
618 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
620 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
622 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
623 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
625 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
627 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
628 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
630 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
632 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
633 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
634 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
635 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
636 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
638 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
639 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
640 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
642 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
644 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
645 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
646 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
647 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
648 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
649 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
651 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
652 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
653 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
655 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
656 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
657 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
658 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
659 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
660 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
662 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
663 and now it returns '/'.
665 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
667 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
669 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
670 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
672 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
675 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
678 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
679 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
681 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
682 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
685 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
686 tests added for them:
687 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
688 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
689 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
690 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
691 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
692 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
693 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
695 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
696 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
697 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
699 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
701 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
702 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
703 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
706 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
709 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
710 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
711 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
712 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
713 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
714 broken relative path previous versions returned.
716 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
717 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
719 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
721 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
723 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
725 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
726 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
728 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
729 on platforms where it can't run properly.
731 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
733 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
734 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
735 from what I can tell, are listed here.
737 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
738 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
739 done by Thomas Wegner.
741 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
743 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
744 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
746 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
749 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
750 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
752 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
755 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
759 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
761 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
762 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
764 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
765 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
766 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
768 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
771 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
772 on its final argument.
774 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
777 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
778 relativity when no base is given.
780 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
783 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
784 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
786 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
788 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
790 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
791 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
792 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
793 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
794 needing to update the perl repository.
795 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
796 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
797 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
798 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
799 arrives where method prototypes are honored.