1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
4 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
6 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
7 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
9 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
10 avoid using it when in the core.
12 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
14 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
15 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
17 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
18 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
20 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
22 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
23 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
25 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
27 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
28 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
29 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
30 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
33 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
35 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
36 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
37 letter. [Reported by several parties]
39 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
41 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
42 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
44 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
45 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
46 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
47 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
50 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
51 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
52 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
53 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
54 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
56 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
58 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
59 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
60 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
61 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
62 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
63 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
65 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
66 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
67 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
68 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
70 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
71 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
74 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
76 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
77 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
79 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
80 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
82 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
83 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
85 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
87 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
88 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
89 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
90 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
91 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
92 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
94 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
96 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
97 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
99 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
100 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
101 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
103 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
104 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
105 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
106 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
107 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
108 by Eamon Daly and others]
110 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
112 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
113 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
114 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
115 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
116 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
117 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
119 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
120 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
121 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
122 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
123 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
125 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
126 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
127 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
129 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
130 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
131 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
134 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
135 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
137 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
139 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
140 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
141 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
142 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
143 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
144 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
146 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
147 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
148 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
150 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
152 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
153 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
154 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
155 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
156 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
158 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
159 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
161 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
162 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
163 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
165 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
167 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
169 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
170 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
172 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
175 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
177 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
178 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
180 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
182 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
183 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
184 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
186 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
187 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
188 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
189 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
191 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
193 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
194 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
195 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
198 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
199 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
201 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
202 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
203 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
204 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
206 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
208 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
209 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
211 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
213 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
214 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
216 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
219 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
220 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
221 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
223 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
224 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
226 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
228 (No changes in functionality)
230 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
233 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
234 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
236 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
238 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
239 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
241 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
242 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
243 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
246 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
247 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
249 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
251 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
252 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
253 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
254 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
255 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
258 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
259 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
262 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
263 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
265 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
267 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
268 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
270 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
271 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
272 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
274 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
275 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
276 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
278 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
280 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
281 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
283 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
284 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
286 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
287 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
288 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
290 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
291 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
292 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
294 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
295 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
297 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
299 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
300 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
302 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
303 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
304 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
306 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
307 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
309 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
310 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
311 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
313 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
314 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
315 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
316 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
318 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
319 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
320 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
321 with the rest of the stuff.
323 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
324 older perls like 5.005.
326 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
329 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
330 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
332 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
334 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
335 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
337 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
338 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
340 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
342 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
343 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
344 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
345 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
346 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
349 ==================================================================
350 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
351 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
352 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
353 ==================================================================
355 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
357 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
358 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
360 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
361 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
363 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
365 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
366 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
368 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
370 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
371 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
372 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
373 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
374 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
376 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
378 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
379 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
381 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
383 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
384 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
385 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
387 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
389 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
390 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
393 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
394 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
396 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
397 path separator is ':'.
399 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
400 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
401 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
403 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
406 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
408 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
409 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
412 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
414 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
415 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
416 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
418 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
420 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
421 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
422 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
424 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
426 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
427 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
428 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
429 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
431 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
433 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
434 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
436 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
439 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
441 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
442 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
444 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
446 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
447 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
450 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
451 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
453 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
455 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
457 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
458 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
459 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
460 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
462 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
463 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
465 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
468 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
469 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
471 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
474 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
476 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
477 release by Ken Williams.
479 ==================================================================
480 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
481 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
482 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
483 ==================================================================
485 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
487 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
488 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
489 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
491 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
493 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
494 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
496 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
497 path. [Craig A. Berry]
499 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
501 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
502 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
503 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
506 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
507 class. [Alexander Farber]
509 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
511 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
513 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
514 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
516 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
518 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
519 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
521 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
523 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
524 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
525 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
526 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
527 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
529 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
530 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
531 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
533 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
535 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
536 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
537 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
538 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
539 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
540 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
542 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
543 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
544 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
546 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
547 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
548 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
549 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
550 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
551 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
553 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
554 and now it returns '/'.
556 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
558 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
560 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
561 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
563 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
566 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
569 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
570 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
572 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
573 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
576 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
577 tests added for them:
578 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
579 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
580 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
581 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
582 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
583 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
584 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
586 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
587 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
588 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
590 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
592 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
593 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
594 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
597 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
600 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
601 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
602 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
603 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
604 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
605 broken relative path previous versions returned.
607 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
608 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
610 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
612 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
614 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
616 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
617 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
619 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
620 on platforms where it can't run properly.
622 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
624 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
625 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
626 from what I can tell, are listed here.
628 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
629 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
630 done by Thomas Wegner.
632 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
634 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
635 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
637 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
640 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
641 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
643 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
646 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
650 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
652 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
653 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
655 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
656 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
657 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
659 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
662 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
663 on its final argument.
665 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
668 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
669 relativity when no base is given.
671 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
674 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
675 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
677 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
679 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
681 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
682 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
683 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
684 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
685 needing to update the perl repository.
686 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
687 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
688 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
689 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
690 arrives where method prototypes are honored.