1 Revision history for the Perl extension Win32.
4 - Add support for Windows 2008 Server and Windows 7 in
5 Win32::GetOSName() and in the documentation for
7 - Make Win32::GetOSName() implementation testable.
8 - Document that the OSName for Win32s is actually "WinWin32s".
11 - Fix Cygwin releated problems in t/GetCurrentThreadId.t
15 - Add Win32::GetCurrentProcessId() function
18 - Add typecasts for Win64 compilation
21 Integrate changes from bleadperl:
22 - Silence Borland compiler warning (Steve Hay)
23 - Fix memory leak in Win32::GetOSVersion (Vincent Pit)
24 - Test Win32::GetCurrentThreadId on cygwin (Reini Urban, Steve Hay)
27 - Document "WinVista" return value for Win32::GetOSName()
31 - Update version to 0.33 for Perl 5.10 release
32 - Add $^O test in Makefile.PL for CPAN Testers
33 - Use Win32::GetLastError() instead of $^E in t/Names.t for
34 cygwin compatibility (Jerry D. Hedden).
37 - Additional #define's for older versions of VC++ (Dmitry Karasik).
38 - Win32::DomainName() doesn't return anything when the Workstation
39 service isn't running. Set $^E and adapt t/Names.t accordingly
40 (Steve Hay & Jerry D. Hedden).
41 - Fix t/Names.t to allow Win32::GetOSName() to return an empty
42 description as the 2nd return value (e.g. Vista without SP).
43 - Fix t/GetFileVersion.t for Perl 5.10
46 - Apply Cygwin fixes from bleadperl (from Jerry D. Hedden).
47 - Make sure Win32::GetLongPathName() always returns drive
48 letters in uppercase (Jerry D. Hedden).
49 - Use uppercase environment variable names in t/Unicode.t
50 because the MSWin32 doesn't care, and Cygwin only works
51 with the uppercased version.
52 - new t/Names.t test (from Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
55 - Fixed t/Unicode.t test for Cygwin (with help from Jerry D. Hedden).
56 - Fixed and documented Win32::GetShortPathName() to return undef
57 when the pathname doesn't exist (thanks to Steve Hay).
58 - Added t/GetShortPathName.t
61 - Fixed to compile with Borland BCC (thanks to Steve Hay).
64 - Increase version number as 0.28 was already used by an ActivePerl
65 release (for essentially 0.27 plus the Win32::IsAdminUser() change).
67 - Add MODULE and PROTOTYPES directives to silence warnings from
68 newer versions of xsubpp.
70 - Use the Cygwin codepath in Win32::GetFullPathName() when
71 PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS is not defined, because the other code
72 relies on the virtualization code in win32/vdir.h.
75 - We need Windows 2000 or later for the Unicode support because
76 WC_NO_BEST_FIT_CHARS is not supported on Windows NT.
78 - Fix Win32::GetFullPathName() on Windows NT to return an
79 empty file part if the original argument ends with a slash.
82 - Update Win32::IsAdminUser() to use the IsUserAnAdmin() function
83 in shell32.dll when available. On Windows Vista this will only
84 return true if the process is running with elevated privileges
85 and not just when the owner of the process is a member of the
86 "Administrators" group.
88 - Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings() may return a Unicode string
89 (a string containing characters outside the system codepage)
91 - new Win32::GetANSIPathName() function returns a pathname in
92 a form containing only characters from the system codepage
94 - Win32::GetCwd() will return an ANSI version of the directory
95 name if the long name contains characters outside the system
98 - Win32::GetFolderPath() will return an ANSI pathname. Call
99 Win32::GetLongPathName() to get the canonical Unicode
102 - Win32::GetFullPathName() will return an ANSI pathname. Call
103 Win32::GetLongPathName() to get the canonical Unicode
106 - Win32::GetLongPathName() may return a Unicode path name.
107 Call Win32::GetANSIPathName() to get a representation using
108 only characters from the system codepage.
110 - Win32::LoginName() may return a Unicode string.
112 - new Win32::OutputDebugString() function sends a string to
115 - new Win32::GetCurrentThreadId() function returns the thread
116 id (to complement the process id in $$).
118 - new Win32::CreateDirectory() creates a new directory. The
119 name of the directory may contain Unicode characters outside
122 - new Win32::CreateFile() creates a new file. The name of the
123 file may contain Unicode characters outside the system codepage.
127 - Extracted from the libwin32 distribution to simplify maintenance
128 because Win32 is a dual-life core module since 5.8.4.
130 - Win32.pm and Win32.xs updated to version in bleadperl.
131 This includes all the Win32::* function from win32/win32.c
132 in core Perl, except for Win32::SetChildShowWindows().
134 - Install into 'perl' directory instead of 'site' for Perl 5.8.4
137 - Add some simple tests.