1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
5 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
6 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
7 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
8 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
9 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
12 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
13 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
16 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
17 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
19 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
21 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
22 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
24 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
25 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
26 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
28 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
29 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
30 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
32 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
34 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
35 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
37 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
38 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
40 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
41 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
42 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
44 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
45 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
46 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
48 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
49 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
51 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
53 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
54 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
56 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
57 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
58 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
60 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
61 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
63 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
64 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
65 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
67 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
68 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
69 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
70 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
72 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
73 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
74 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
75 with the rest of the stuff.
77 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
78 older perls like 5.005.
80 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
83 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
84 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
86 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
88 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
89 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
91 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
92 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
94 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
96 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
97 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
98 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
99 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
100 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
103 ==================================================================
104 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
105 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
106 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
107 ==================================================================
109 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
111 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
112 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
114 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
115 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
117 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
119 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
120 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
122 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
124 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
125 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
126 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
127 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
128 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
130 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
132 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
133 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
135 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
137 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
138 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
139 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
141 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
143 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
144 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
147 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
148 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
150 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
151 path separator is ':'.
153 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
154 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
155 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
157 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
160 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
162 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
163 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
166 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
168 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
169 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
170 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
172 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
174 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
175 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
176 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
178 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
180 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
181 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
182 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
183 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
185 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
187 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
188 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
190 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
193 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
195 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
196 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
198 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
200 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
201 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
204 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
205 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
207 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
209 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
211 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
212 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
213 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
214 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
216 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
217 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
219 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
222 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
223 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
225 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
228 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
230 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
231 release by Ken Williams.
233 ==================================================================
234 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
235 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
236 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
237 ==================================================================
239 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
241 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
242 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
243 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
245 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
247 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
248 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
250 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
251 path. [Craig A. Berry]
253 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
255 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
256 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
257 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
260 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
261 class. [Alexander Farber]
263 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
265 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
267 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
268 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
270 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
272 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
273 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
275 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
277 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
278 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
279 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
280 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
281 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
283 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
284 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
285 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
287 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
289 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
290 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
291 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
292 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
293 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
294 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
296 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
297 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
298 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
300 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
301 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
302 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
303 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
304 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
305 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
307 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
308 and now it returns '/'.
310 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
312 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
314 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
315 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
317 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
320 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
323 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
324 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
326 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
327 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
330 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
331 tests added for them:
332 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
333 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
334 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
335 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
336 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
337 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
338 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
340 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
341 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
342 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
344 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
346 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
347 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
348 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
351 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
354 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
355 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
356 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
357 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
358 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
359 broken relative path previous versions returned.
361 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
362 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
364 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
366 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
368 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
370 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
371 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
373 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
374 on platforms where it can't run properly.
376 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
378 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
379 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
380 from what I can tell, are listed here.
382 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
383 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
384 done by Thomas Wegner.
386 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
388 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
389 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
391 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
394 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
395 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
397 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
400 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
404 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
406 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
407 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
409 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
410 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
411 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
413 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
416 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
417 on its final argument.
419 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
422 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
423 relativity when no base is given.
425 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
428 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
429 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
431 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
433 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
435 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
436 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
437 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
438 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
439 needing to update the perl repository.
440 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
441 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
442 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
443 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
444 arrives where method prototypes are honored.