1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
5 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
6 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
7 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
9 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
10 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
11 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
12 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
14 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
16 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
17 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
18 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
21 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
22 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
24 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
25 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
26 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
27 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
29 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
31 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
32 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
34 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
36 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
37 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
39 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
42 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
43 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
44 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
46 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
47 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
49 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
51 (No changes in functionality)
53 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
56 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
57 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
59 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
61 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
62 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
64 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
65 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
66 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
69 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
70 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
72 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
74 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
75 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
76 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
77 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
78 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
81 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
82 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
85 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
86 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
88 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
90 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
91 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
93 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
94 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
95 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
97 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
98 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
99 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
101 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
103 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
104 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
106 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
107 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
109 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
110 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
111 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
113 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
114 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
115 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
117 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
118 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
120 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
122 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
123 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
125 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
126 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
127 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
129 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
130 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
132 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
133 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
134 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
136 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
137 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
138 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
139 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
141 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
142 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
143 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
144 with the rest of the stuff.
146 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
147 older perls like 5.005.
149 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
152 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
153 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
155 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
157 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
158 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
160 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
161 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
163 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
165 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
166 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
167 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
168 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
169 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
172 ==================================================================
173 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
174 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
175 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
176 ==================================================================
178 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
180 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
181 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
183 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
184 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
186 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
188 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
189 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
191 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
193 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
194 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
195 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
196 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
197 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
199 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
201 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
202 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
204 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
206 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
207 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
208 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
210 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
212 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
213 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
216 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
217 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
219 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
220 path separator is ':'.
222 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
223 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
224 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
226 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
229 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
231 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
232 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
235 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
237 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
238 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
239 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
241 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
243 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
244 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
245 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
247 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
249 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
250 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
251 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
252 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
254 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
256 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
257 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
259 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
262 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
264 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
265 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
267 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
269 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
270 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
273 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
274 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
276 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
278 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
280 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
281 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
282 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
283 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
285 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
286 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
288 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
291 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
292 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
294 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
297 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
299 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
300 release by Ken Williams.
302 ==================================================================
303 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
304 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
305 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
306 ==================================================================
308 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
310 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
311 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
312 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
314 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
316 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
317 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
319 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
320 path. [Craig A. Berry]
322 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
324 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
325 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
326 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
329 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
330 class. [Alexander Farber]
332 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
334 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
336 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
337 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
339 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
341 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
342 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
344 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
346 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
347 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
348 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
349 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
350 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
352 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
353 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
354 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
356 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
358 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
359 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
360 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
361 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
362 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
363 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
365 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
366 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
367 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
369 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
370 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
371 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
372 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
373 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
374 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
376 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
377 and now it returns '/'.
379 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
381 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
383 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
384 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
386 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
389 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
392 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
393 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
395 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
396 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
399 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
400 tests added for them:
401 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
402 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
403 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
404 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
405 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
406 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
407 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
409 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
410 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
411 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
413 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
415 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
416 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
417 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
420 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
423 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
424 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
425 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
426 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
427 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
428 broken relative path previous versions returned.
430 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
431 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
433 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
435 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
437 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
439 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
440 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
442 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
443 on platforms where it can't run properly.
445 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
447 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
448 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
449 from what I can tell, are listed here.
451 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
452 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
453 done by Thomas Wegner.
455 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
457 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
458 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
460 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
463 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
464 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
466 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
469 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
473 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
475 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
476 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
478 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
479 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
480 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
482 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
485 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
486 on its final argument.
488 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
491 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
492 relativity when no base is given.
494 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
497 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
498 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
500 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
502 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
504 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
505 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
506 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
507 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
508 needing to update the perl repository.
509 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
510 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
511 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
512 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
513 arrives where method prototypes are honored.