1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 - Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
5 - Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
6 extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
8 - VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
9 (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
11 3.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
13 - Promote to stable release.
15 3.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
17 - In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
18 otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
20 3.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
22 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
23 slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
25 3.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
27 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
28 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
30 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
32 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
33 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
34 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
37 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
38 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
40 3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
42 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
43 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
44 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're
45 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
48 3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
50 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
51 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
54 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
56 3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
58 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
59 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
60 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
61 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
63 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
64 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
66 3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
68 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
69 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
71 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
73 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
74 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
75 because this fact can vary on different volumes.
77 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
78 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
81 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
83 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
85 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
88 3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
90 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
91 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
93 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
94 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will
95 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
96 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
99 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
100 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
102 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
104 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
105 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
107 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
108 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
111 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
112 hodgepodge of various numbers.
114 3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
116 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
117 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
119 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
120 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
122 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
123 avoid using it when in the core.
125 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
127 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
128 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
130 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
131 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
133 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
135 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
136 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
138 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
140 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
141 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
142 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
143 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
146 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
148 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
149 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
150 letter. [Reported by several parties]
152 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
154 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
155 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
157 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
158 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
159 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
160 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
163 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
164 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
165 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
166 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
167 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
169 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
171 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
172 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
173 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
174 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
175 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
176 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
178 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
179 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
180 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
181 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
183 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
184 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
187 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
189 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
190 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
192 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
193 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
195 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
196 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
198 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
200 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
201 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
202 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
203 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
204 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
205 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
207 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
209 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
210 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
212 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
213 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
214 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
216 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
217 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
218 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
219 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
220 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
221 by Eamon Daly and others]
223 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
225 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
226 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
227 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
228 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
229 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
230 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
232 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
233 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
234 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
235 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
236 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
238 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
239 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
240 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
242 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
243 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
244 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
247 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
248 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
250 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
252 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
253 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
254 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
255 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
256 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
257 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
259 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
260 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
261 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
263 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
265 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
266 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
267 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
268 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
269 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
271 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
272 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
274 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
275 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
276 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
278 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
280 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
282 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
283 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
285 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
288 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
290 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
291 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
293 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
295 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
296 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
297 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
299 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
300 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
301 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
302 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
304 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
306 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
307 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
308 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
311 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
312 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
314 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
315 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
316 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
317 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
319 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
321 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
322 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
324 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
326 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
327 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
329 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
332 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
333 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
334 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
336 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
337 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
339 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
341 (No changes in functionality)
343 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
346 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
347 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
349 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
351 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
352 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
354 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
355 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
356 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
359 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
360 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
362 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
364 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
365 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
366 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
367 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
368 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
371 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
372 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
375 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
376 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
378 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
380 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
381 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
383 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
384 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
385 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
387 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
388 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
389 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
391 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
393 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
394 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
396 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
397 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
399 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
400 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
401 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
403 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
404 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
405 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
407 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
408 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
410 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
412 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
413 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
415 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
416 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
417 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
419 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
420 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
422 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
423 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
424 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
426 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
427 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
428 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
429 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
431 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
432 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
433 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
434 with the rest of the stuff.
436 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
437 older perls like 5.005.
439 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
442 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
443 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
445 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
447 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
448 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
450 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
451 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
453 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
455 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
456 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
457 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
458 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
459 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
462 ==================================================================
463 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
464 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
465 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
466 ==================================================================
468 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
470 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
471 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
473 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
474 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
476 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
478 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
479 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
481 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
483 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
484 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
485 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
486 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
487 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
489 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
491 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
492 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
494 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
496 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
497 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
498 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
500 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
502 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
503 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
506 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
507 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
509 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
510 path separator is ':'.
512 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
513 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
514 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
516 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
519 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
521 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
522 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
525 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
527 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
528 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
529 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
531 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
533 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
534 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
535 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
537 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
539 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
540 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
541 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
542 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
544 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
546 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
547 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
549 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
552 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
554 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
555 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
557 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
559 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
560 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
563 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
564 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
566 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
568 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
570 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
571 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
572 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
573 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
575 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
576 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
578 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
581 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
582 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
584 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
587 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
589 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
590 release by Ken Williams.
592 ==================================================================
593 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
594 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
595 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
596 ==================================================================
598 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
600 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
601 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
602 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
604 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
606 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
607 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
609 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
610 path. [Craig A. Berry]
612 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
614 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
615 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
616 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
619 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
620 class. [Alexander Farber]
622 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
624 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
626 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
627 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
629 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
631 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
632 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
634 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
636 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
637 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
638 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
639 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
640 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
642 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
643 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
644 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
646 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
648 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
649 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
650 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
651 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
652 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
653 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
655 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
656 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
657 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
659 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
660 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
661 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
662 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
663 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
664 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
666 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
667 and now it returns '/'.
669 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
671 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
673 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
674 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
676 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
679 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
682 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
683 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
685 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
686 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
689 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
690 tests added for them:
691 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
692 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
693 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
694 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
695 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
696 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
697 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
699 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
700 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
701 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
703 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
705 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
706 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
707 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
710 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
713 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
714 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
715 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
716 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
717 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
718 broken relative path previous versions returned.
720 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
721 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
723 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
725 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
727 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
729 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
730 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
732 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
733 on platforms where it can't run properly.
735 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
737 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
738 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
739 from what I can tell, are listed here.
741 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
742 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
743 done by Thomas Wegner.
745 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
747 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
748 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
750 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
753 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
754 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
756 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
759 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
763 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
765 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
766 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
768 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
769 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
770 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
772 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
775 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
776 on its final argument.
778 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
781 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
782 relativity when no base is given.
784 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
787 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
788 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
790 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
792 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
794 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
795 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
796 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
797 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
798 needing to update the perl repository.
799 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
800 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
801 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
802 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
803 arrives where method prototypes are honored.