1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
5 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
6 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
7 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
8 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
9 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
10 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
12 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
13 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
14 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
16 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
18 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
19 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
20 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
21 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
22 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
24 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
25 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
27 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
28 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
29 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
31 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
33 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
35 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
36 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
38 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
41 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
43 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
44 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
46 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
48 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
49 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
50 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
52 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
53 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
54 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
55 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
57 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
59 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
60 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
61 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
64 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
65 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
67 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
68 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
69 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
70 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
72 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
74 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
75 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
77 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
79 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
80 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
82 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
85 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
86 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
87 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
89 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
90 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
92 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
94 (No changes in functionality)
96 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
99 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
100 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
102 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
104 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
105 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
107 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
108 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
109 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
112 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
113 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
115 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
117 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
118 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
119 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
120 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
121 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
124 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
125 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
128 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
129 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
131 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
133 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
134 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
136 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
137 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
138 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
140 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
141 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
142 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
144 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
146 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
147 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
149 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
150 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
152 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
153 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
154 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
156 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
157 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
158 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
160 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
161 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
163 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
165 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
166 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
168 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
169 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
170 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
172 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
173 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
175 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
176 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
177 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
179 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
180 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
181 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
182 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
184 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
185 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
186 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
187 with the rest of the stuff.
189 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
190 older perls like 5.005.
192 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
195 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
196 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
198 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
200 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
201 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
203 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
204 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
206 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
208 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
209 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
210 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
211 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
212 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
215 ==================================================================
216 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
217 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
218 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
219 ==================================================================
221 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
223 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
224 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
226 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
227 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
229 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
231 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
232 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
234 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
236 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
237 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
238 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
239 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
240 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
242 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
244 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
245 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
247 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
249 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
250 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
251 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
253 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
255 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
256 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
259 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
260 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
262 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
263 path separator is ':'.
265 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
266 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
267 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
269 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
272 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
274 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
275 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
278 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
280 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
281 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
282 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
284 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
286 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
287 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
288 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
290 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
292 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
293 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
294 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
295 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
297 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
299 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
300 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
302 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
305 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
307 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
308 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
310 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
312 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
313 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
316 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
317 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
319 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
321 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
323 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
324 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
325 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
326 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
328 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
329 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
331 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
334 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
335 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
337 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
340 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
342 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
343 release by Ken Williams.
345 ==================================================================
346 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
347 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
348 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
349 ==================================================================
351 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
353 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
354 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
355 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
357 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
359 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
360 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
362 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
363 path. [Craig A. Berry]
365 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
367 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
368 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
369 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
372 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
373 class. [Alexander Farber]
375 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
377 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
379 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
380 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
382 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
384 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
385 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
387 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
389 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
390 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
391 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
392 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
393 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
395 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
396 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
397 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
399 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
401 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
402 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
403 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
404 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
405 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
406 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
408 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
409 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
410 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
412 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
413 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
414 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
415 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
416 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
417 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
419 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
420 and now it returns '/'.
422 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
424 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
426 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
427 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
429 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
432 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
435 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
436 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
438 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
439 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
442 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
443 tests added for them:
444 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
445 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
446 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
447 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
448 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
449 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
450 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
452 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
453 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
454 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
456 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
458 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
459 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
460 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
463 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
466 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
467 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
468 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
469 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
470 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
471 broken relative path previous versions returned.
473 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
474 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
476 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
478 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
480 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
482 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
483 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
485 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
486 on platforms where it can't run properly.
488 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
490 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
491 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
492 from what I can tell, are listed here.
494 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
495 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
496 done by Thomas Wegner.
498 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
500 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
501 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
503 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
506 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
507 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
509 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
512 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
516 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
518 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
519 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
521 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
522 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
523 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
525 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
528 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
529 on its final argument.
531 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
534 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
535 relativity when no base is given.
537 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
540 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
541 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
543 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
545 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
547 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
548 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
549 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
550 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
551 needing to update the perl repository.
552 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
553 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
554 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
555 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
556 arrives where method prototypes are honored.