1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 - Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
4 extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
6 - VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
7 (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
9 3.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
11 - Promote to stable release.
13 3.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
15 - In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
16 otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
18 3.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
20 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
21 slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
23 3.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
25 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
26 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
28 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
30 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
31 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
32 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
35 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
36 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
38 3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
40 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
41 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
42 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're
43 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
46 3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
48 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
49 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
52 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
54 3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
56 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
57 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
58 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
59 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
61 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
62 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
64 3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
66 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
67 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
69 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
71 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
72 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
73 because this fact can vary on different volumes.
75 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
76 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
79 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
81 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
83 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
86 3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
88 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
89 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
91 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
92 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will
93 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
94 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
97 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
98 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
100 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
102 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
103 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
105 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
106 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
109 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
110 hodgepodge of various numbers.
112 3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
114 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
115 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
117 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
118 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
120 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
121 avoid using it when in the core.
123 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
125 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
126 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
128 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
129 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
131 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
133 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
134 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
136 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
138 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
139 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
140 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
141 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
144 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
146 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
147 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
148 letter. [Reported by several parties]
150 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
152 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
153 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
155 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
156 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
157 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
158 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
161 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
162 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
163 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
164 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
165 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
167 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
169 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
170 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
171 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
172 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
173 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
174 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
176 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
177 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
178 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
179 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
181 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
182 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
185 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
187 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
188 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
190 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
191 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
193 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
194 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
196 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
198 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
199 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
200 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
201 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
202 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
203 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
205 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
207 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
208 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
210 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
211 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
212 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
214 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
215 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
216 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
217 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
218 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
219 by Eamon Daly and others]
221 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
223 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
224 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
225 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
226 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
227 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
228 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
230 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
231 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
232 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
233 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
234 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
236 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
237 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
238 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
240 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
241 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
242 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
245 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
246 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
248 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
250 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
251 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
252 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
253 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
254 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
255 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
257 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
258 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
259 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
261 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
263 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
264 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
265 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
266 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
267 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
269 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
270 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
272 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
273 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
274 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
276 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
278 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
280 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
281 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
283 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
286 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
288 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
289 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
291 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
293 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
294 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
295 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
297 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
298 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
299 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
300 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
302 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
304 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
305 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
306 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
309 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
310 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
312 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
313 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
314 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
315 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
317 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
319 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
320 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
322 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
324 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
325 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
327 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
330 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
331 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
332 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
334 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
335 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
337 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
339 (No changes in functionality)
341 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
344 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
345 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
347 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
349 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
350 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
352 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
353 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
354 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
357 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
358 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
360 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
362 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
363 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
364 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
365 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
366 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
369 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
370 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
373 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
374 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
376 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
378 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
379 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
381 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
382 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
383 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
385 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
386 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
387 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
389 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
391 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
392 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
394 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
395 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
397 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
398 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
399 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
401 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
402 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
403 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
405 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
406 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
408 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
410 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
411 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
413 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
414 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
415 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
417 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
418 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
420 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
421 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
422 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
424 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
425 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
426 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
427 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
429 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
430 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
431 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
432 with the rest of the stuff.
434 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
435 older perls like 5.005.
437 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
440 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
441 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
443 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
445 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
446 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
448 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
449 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
451 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
453 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
454 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
455 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
456 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
457 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
460 ==================================================================
461 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
462 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
463 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
464 ==================================================================
466 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
468 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
469 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
471 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
472 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
474 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
476 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
477 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
479 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
481 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
482 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
483 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
484 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
485 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
487 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
489 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
490 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
492 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
494 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
495 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
496 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
498 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
500 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
501 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
504 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
505 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
507 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
508 path separator is ':'.
510 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
511 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
512 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
514 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
517 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
519 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
520 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
523 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
525 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
526 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
527 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
529 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
531 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
532 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
533 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
535 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
537 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
538 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
539 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
540 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
542 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
544 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
545 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
547 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
550 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
552 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
553 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
555 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
557 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
558 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
561 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
562 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
564 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
566 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
568 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
569 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
570 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
571 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
573 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
574 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
576 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
579 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
580 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
582 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
585 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
587 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
588 release by Ken Williams.
590 ==================================================================
591 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
592 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
593 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
594 ==================================================================
596 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
598 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
599 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
600 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
602 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
604 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
605 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
607 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
608 path. [Craig A. Berry]
610 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
612 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
613 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
614 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
617 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
618 class. [Alexander Farber]
620 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
622 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
624 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
625 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
627 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
629 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
630 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
632 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
634 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
635 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
636 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
637 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
638 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
640 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
641 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
642 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
644 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
646 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
647 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
648 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
649 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
650 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
651 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
653 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
654 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
655 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
657 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
658 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
659 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
660 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
661 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
662 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
664 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
665 and now it returns '/'.
667 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
669 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
671 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
672 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
674 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
677 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
680 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
681 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
683 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
684 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
687 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
688 tests added for them:
689 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
690 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
691 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
692 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
693 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
694 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
695 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
697 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
698 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
699 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
701 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
703 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
704 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
705 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
708 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
711 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
712 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
713 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
714 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
715 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
716 broken relative path previous versions returned.
718 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
719 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
721 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
723 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
725 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
727 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
728 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
730 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
731 on platforms where it can't run properly.
733 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
735 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
736 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
737 from what I can tell, are listed here.
739 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
740 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
741 done by Thomas Wegner.
743 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
745 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
746 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
748 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
751 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
752 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
754 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
757 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
761 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
763 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
764 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
766 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
767 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
768 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
770 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
773 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
774 on its final argument.
776 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
779 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
780 relativity when no base is given.
782 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
785 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
786 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
788 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
790 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
792 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
793 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
794 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
795 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
796 needing to update the perl repository.
797 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
798 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
799 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
800 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
801 arrives where method prototypes are honored.