1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
5 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
6 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
8 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
11 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
12 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
13 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
15 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
16 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
18 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
20 (No changes in functionality)
22 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
25 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
26 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
28 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
30 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
31 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
33 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
34 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
35 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
38 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
39 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
41 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
43 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
44 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
45 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
46 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
47 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
50 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
51 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
54 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
55 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
57 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
59 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
60 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
62 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
63 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
64 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
66 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
67 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
68 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
70 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
72 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
73 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
75 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
76 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
78 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
79 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
80 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
82 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
83 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
84 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
86 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
87 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
89 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
91 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
92 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
94 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
95 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
96 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
98 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
99 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
101 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
102 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
103 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
105 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
106 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
107 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
108 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
110 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
111 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
112 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
113 with the rest of the stuff.
115 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
116 older perls like 5.005.
118 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
121 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
122 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
124 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
126 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
127 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
129 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
130 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
132 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
134 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
135 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
136 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
137 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
138 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
141 ==================================================================
142 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
143 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
144 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
145 ==================================================================
147 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
149 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
150 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
152 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
153 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
155 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
157 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
158 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
160 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
162 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
163 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
164 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
165 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
166 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
168 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
170 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
171 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
173 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
175 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
176 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
177 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
179 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
181 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
182 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
185 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
186 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
188 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
189 path separator is ':'.
191 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
192 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
193 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
195 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
198 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
200 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
201 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
204 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
206 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
207 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
208 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
210 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
212 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
213 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
214 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
216 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
218 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
219 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
220 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
221 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
223 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
225 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
226 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
228 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
231 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
233 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
234 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
236 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
238 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
239 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
242 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
243 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
245 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
247 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
249 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
250 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
251 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
252 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
254 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
255 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
257 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
260 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
261 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
263 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
266 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
268 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
269 release by Ken Williams.
271 ==================================================================
272 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
273 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
274 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
275 ==================================================================
277 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
279 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
280 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
281 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
283 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
285 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
286 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
288 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
289 path. [Craig A. Berry]
291 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
293 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
294 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
295 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
298 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
299 class. [Alexander Farber]
301 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
303 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
305 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
306 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
308 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
310 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
311 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
313 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
315 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
316 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
317 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
318 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
319 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
321 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
322 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
323 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
325 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
327 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
328 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
329 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
330 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
331 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
332 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
334 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
335 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
336 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
338 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
339 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
340 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
341 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
342 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
343 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
345 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
346 and now it returns '/'.
348 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
350 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
352 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
353 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
355 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
358 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
361 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
362 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
364 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
365 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
368 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
369 tests added for them:
370 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
371 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
372 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
373 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
374 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
375 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
376 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
378 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
379 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
380 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
382 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
384 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
385 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
386 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
389 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
392 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
393 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
394 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
395 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
396 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
397 broken relative path previous versions returned.
399 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
400 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
402 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
404 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
406 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
408 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
409 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
411 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
412 on platforms where it can't run properly.
414 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
416 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
417 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
418 from what I can tell, are listed here.
420 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
421 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
422 done by Thomas Wegner.
424 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
426 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
427 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
429 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
432 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
433 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
435 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
438 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
442 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
444 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
445 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
447 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
448 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
449 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
451 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
454 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
455 on its final argument.
457 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
460 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
461 relativity when no base is given.
463 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
466 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
467 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
469 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
471 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
473 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
474 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
475 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
476 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
477 needing to update the perl repository.
478 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
479 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
480 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
481 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
482 arrives where method prototypes are honored.