1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
5 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
6 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
8 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
11 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
13 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
14 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
16 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
18 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
19 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
20 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
22 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
23 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
24 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
25 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
27 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
29 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
30 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
31 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
34 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
35 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
37 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
38 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
39 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
40 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
42 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
44 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
45 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
47 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
49 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
50 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
52 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
55 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
56 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
57 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
59 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
60 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
62 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
64 (No changes in functionality)
66 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
69 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
70 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
72 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
74 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
75 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
77 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
78 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
79 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
82 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
83 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
85 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
87 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
88 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
89 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
90 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
91 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
94 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
95 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
98 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
99 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
101 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
103 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
104 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
106 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
107 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
108 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
110 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
111 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
112 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
114 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
116 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
117 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
119 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
120 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
122 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
123 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
124 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
126 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
127 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
128 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
130 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
131 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
133 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
135 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
136 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
138 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
139 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
140 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
142 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
143 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
145 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
146 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
147 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
149 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
150 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
151 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
152 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
154 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
155 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
156 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
157 with the rest of the stuff.
159 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
160 older perls like 5.005.
162 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
165 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
166 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
168 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
170 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
171 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
173 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
174 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
176 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
178 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
179 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
180 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
181 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
182 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
185 ==================================================================
186 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
187 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
188 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
189 ==================================================================
191 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
193 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
194 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
196 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
197 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
199 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
201 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
202 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
204 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
206 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
207 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
208 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
209 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
210 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
212 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
214 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
215 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
217 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
219 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
220 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
221 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
223 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
225 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
226 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
229 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
230 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
232 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
233 path separator is ':'.
235 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
236 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
237 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
239 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
242 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
244 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
245 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
248 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
250 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
251 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
252 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
254 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
256 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
257 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
258 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
260 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
262 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
263 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
264 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
265 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
267 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
269 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
270 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
272 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
275 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
277 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
278 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
280 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
282 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
283 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
286 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
287 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
289 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
291 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
293 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
294 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
295 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
296 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
298 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
299 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
301 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
304 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
305 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
307 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
310 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
312 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
313 release by Ken Williams.
315 ==================================================================
316 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
317 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
318 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
319 ==================================================================
321 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
323 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
324 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
325 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
327 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
329 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
330 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
332 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
333 path. [Craig A. Berry]
335 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
337 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
338 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
339 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
342 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
343 class. [Alexander Farber]
345 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
347 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
349 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
350 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
352 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
354 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
355 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
357 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
359 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
360 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
361 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
362 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
363 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
365 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
366 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
367 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
369 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
371 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
372 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
373 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
374 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
375 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
376 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
378 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
379 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
380 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
382 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
383 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
384 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
385 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
386 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
387 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
389 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
390 and now it returns '/'.
392 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
394 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
396 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
397 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
399 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
402 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
405 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
406 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
408 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
409 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
412 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
413 tests added for them:
414 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
415 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
416 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
417 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
418 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
419 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
420 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
422 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
423 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
424 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
426 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
428 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
429 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
430 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
433 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
436 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
437 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
438 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
439 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
440 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
441 broken relative path previous versions returned.
443 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
444 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
446 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
448 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
450 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
452 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
453 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
455 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
456 on platforms where it can't run properly.
458 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
460 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
461 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
462 from what I can tell, are listed here.
464 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
465 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
466 done by Thomas Wegner.
468 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
470 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
471 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
473 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
476 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
477 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
479 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
482 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
486 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
488 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
489 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
491 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
492 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
493 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
495 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
498 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
499 on its final argument.
501 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
504 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
505 relativity when no base is given.
507 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
510 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
511 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
513 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
515 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
517 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
518 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
519 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
520 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
521 needing to update the perl repository.
522 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
523 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
524 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
525 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
526 arrives where method prototypes are honored.