1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
5 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
6 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
8 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
9 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
10 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
13 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
14 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
16 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
18 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
19 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
20 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
21 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
22 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
25 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
26 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
29 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
30 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
32 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
34 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
35 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
37 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
38 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
39 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
41 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
42 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
43 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
45 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
47 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
48 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
50 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
51 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
53 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
54 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
55 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
57 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
58 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
59 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
61 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
62 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
64 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
66 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
67 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
69 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
70 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
71 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
73 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
74 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
76 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
77 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
78 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
80 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
81 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
82 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
83 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
85 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
86 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
87 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
88 with the rest of the stuff.
90 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
91 older perls like 5.005.
93 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
96 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
97 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
99 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
101 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
102 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
104 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
105 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
107 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
109 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
110 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
111 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
112 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
113 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
116 ==================================================================
117 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
118 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
119 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
120 ==================================================================
122 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
124 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
125 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
127 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
128 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
130 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
132 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
133 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
135 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
137 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
138 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
139 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
140 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
141 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
143 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
145 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
146 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
148 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
150 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
151 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
152 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
154 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
156 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
157 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
160 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
161 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
163 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
164 path separator is ':'.
166 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
167 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
168 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
170 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
173 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
175 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
176 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
179 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
181 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
182 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
183 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
185 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
187 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
188 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
189 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
191 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
193 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
194 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
195 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
196 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
198 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
200 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
201 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
203 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
206 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
208 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
209 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
211 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
213 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
214 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
217 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
218 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
220 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
222 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
224 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
225 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
226 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
227 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
229 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
230 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
232 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
235 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
236 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
238 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
241 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
243 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
244 release by Ken Williams.
246 ==================================================================
247 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
248 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
249 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
250 ==================================================================
252 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
254 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
255 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
256 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
258 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
260 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
261 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
263 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
264 path. [Craig A. Berry]
266 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
268 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
269 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
270 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
273 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
274 class. [Alexander Farber]
276 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
278 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
280 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
281 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
283 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
285 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
286 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
288 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
290 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
291 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
292 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
293 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
294 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
296 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
297 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
298 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
300 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
302 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
303 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
304 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
305 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
306 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
307 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
309 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
310 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
311 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
313 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
314 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
315 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
316 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
317 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
318 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
320 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
321 and now it returns '/'.
323 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
325 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
327 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
328 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
330 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
333 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
336 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
337 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
339 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
340 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
343 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
344 tests added for them:
345 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
346 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
347 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
348 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
349 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
350 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
351 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
353 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
354 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
355 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
357 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
359 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
360 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
361 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
364 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
367 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
368 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
369 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
370 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
371 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
372 broken relative path previous versions returned.
374 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
375 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
377 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
379 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
381 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
383 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
384 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
386 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
387 on platforms where it can't run properly.
389 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
391 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
392 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
393 from what I can tell, are listed here.
395 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
396 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
397 done by Thomas Wegner.
399 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
401 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
402 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
404 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
407 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
408 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
410 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
413 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
417 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
419 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
420 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
422 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
423 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
424 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
426 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
429 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
430 on its final argument.
432 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
435 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
436 relativity when no base is given.
438 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
441 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
442 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
444 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
446 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
448 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
449 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
450 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
451 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
452 needing to update the perl repository.
453 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
454 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
455 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
456 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
457 arrives where method prototypes are honored.