1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
5 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
6 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
8 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
10 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
11 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
12 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
14 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
15 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
16 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
17 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
19 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
21 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
22 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
23 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
26 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
27 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
29 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
30 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
31 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
32 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
34 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
36 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
37 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
39 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
41 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
42 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
44 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
47 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
48 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
49 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
51 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
52 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
54 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
56 (No changes in functionality)
58 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
61 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
62 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
64 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
66 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
67 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
69 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
70 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
71 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
74 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
75 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
77 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
79 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
80 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
81 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
82 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
83 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
86 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
87 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
90 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
91 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
93 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
95 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
96 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
98 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
99 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
100 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
102 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
103 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
104 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
106 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
108 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
109 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
111 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
112 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
114 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
115 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
116 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
118 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
119 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
120 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
122 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
123 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
125 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
127 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
128 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
130 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
131 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
132 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
134 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
135 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
137 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
138 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
139 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
141 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
142 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
143 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
144 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
146 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
147 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
148 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
149 with the rest of the stuff.
151 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
152 older perls like 5.005.
154 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
157 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
158 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
160 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
162 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
163 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
165 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
166 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
168 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
170 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
171 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
172 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
173 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
174 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
177 ==================================================================
178 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
179 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
180 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
181 ==================================================================
183 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
185 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
186 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
188 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
189 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
191 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
193 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
194 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
196 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
198 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
199 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
200 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
201 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
202 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
204 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
206 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
207 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
209 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
211 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
212 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
213 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
215 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
217 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
218 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
221 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
222 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
224 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
225 path separator is ':'.
227 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
228 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
229 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
231 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
234 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
236 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
237 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
240 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
242 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
243 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
244 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
246 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
248 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
249 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
250 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
252 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
254 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
255 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
256 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
257 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
259 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
261 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
262 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
264 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
267 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
269 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
270 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
272 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
274 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
275 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
278 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
279 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
281 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
283 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
285 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
286 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
287 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
288 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
290 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
291 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
293 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
296 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
297 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
299 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
302 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
304 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
305 release by Ken Williams.
307 ==================================================================
308 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
309 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
310 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
311 ==================================================================
313 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
315 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
316 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
317 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
319 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
321 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
322 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
324 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
325 path. [Craig A. Berry]
327 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
329 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
330 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
331 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
334 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
335 class. [Alexander Farber]
337 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
339 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
341 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
342 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
344 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
346 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
347 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
349 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
351 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
352 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
353 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
354 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
355 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
357 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
358 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
359 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
361 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
363 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
364 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
365 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
366 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
367 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
368 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
370 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
371 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
372 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
374 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
375 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
376 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
377 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
378 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
379 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
381 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
382 and now it returns '/'.
384 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
386 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
388 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
389 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
391 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
394 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
397 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
398 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
400 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
401 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
404 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
405 tests added for them:
406 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
407 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
408 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
409 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
410 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
411 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
412 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
414 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
415 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
416 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
418 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
420 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
421 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
422 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
425 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
428 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
429 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
430 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
431 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
432 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
433 broken relative path previous versions returned.
435 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
436 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
438 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
440 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
442 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
444 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
445 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
447 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
448 on platforms where it can't run properly.
450 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
452 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
453 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
454 from what I can tell, are listed here.
456 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
457 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
458 done by Thomas Wegner.
460 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
462 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
463 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
465 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
468 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
469 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
471 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
474 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
478 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
480 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
481 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
483 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
484 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
485 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
487 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
490 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
491 on its final argument.
493 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
496 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
497 relativity when no base is given.
499 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
502 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
503 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
505 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
507 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
509 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
510 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
511 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
512 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
513 needing to update the perl repository.
514 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
515 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
516 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
517 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
518 arrives where method prototypes are honored.