1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
5 - Fix compilation warning on illumos based platforms
9 - Fix issue related to tainting empty PATH
13 - Add PerlIO_readlink backcompat defines to Cws.xs
17 - More bugtracker changes, document maintainer is the Perl-5 Porters
21 - Change to build so bugreports go to GitHub
25 - compare inode numbers as strings (github #18788)
29 - use the PerlLIO_*() functions for lstat() and readlink() to support
30 Win32 symlink support added to perl.
32 - skip a test that assumes getcwd() doesn't return symlinks on Win32, where
37 - fix an off-by-one in bsd_realpath()
41 - fallback to Internals::getcwd() for getcwd() if available (requires
46 - don't translate "..." to "..\.." on Win32
50 - test t/cwd_enoent.t - also accept ESTALE for a directory that no
51 longer exists (github #16699)
54 - Fix t/abs2rel.t on 5.8.8 by changing mkpath call to be
55 compatible with older File::Path
61 - Define NEED_croak_xs_usage, fixing usage of croak_xs_usage()
62 - [perl #132853] Add metadata (ABSTRACT, LICENSE, AUTHOR)
63 - [perl #132733] Skip cwd_enoent test on Cygwin
64 - [perl #132651] Avoid infinite recursion in _perl_abs_path()
65 - [rt.cpan.org #114236] Compatibility with File::Path 2.06_04
68 - [perl #132648] Correct error returns from fast_abs_path()
71 - [perl #130818] Remove support for running PathTools on MacOS
75 - Change strcmp into the easier to read strEQ
78 - avoid loading modules repeatedly at runtime
79 - replace 'use vars' by 'our'
80 - Switch to XSLoader from Dynaloader
83 - avoid warning from pre-5.8 code for detecting tainted values
84 - make taint.t detect that a pre-5.8 Perl supports tainting
85 - avoid a dynamic linking problem on Perl 5.6
87 3.67 - Mon Feb 27 09:33:04 EST 2017
88 - Add security usage note to File::Spec::no_upwards
90 3.66 - Sat Nov 19 10:30:19 MST 2016
91 - white space change so can compile under C++11
93 3.65 - Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:15:33 -0700
94 - (perl #127384)(CVE-2016-1238)
96 3.64 - Tue May 24 10:00:19 MST 2016
97 - just minor pod changes to silence Pod::Checker
99 3.62 - Mon Jan 11 08:39:19 EST 2016
100 - ensure File::Spec::canonpath() preserves taint (CVE-2015-8607)
102 3.61 - Sun Dec 20 12:00:00 EST 2015 (bleadperl only release)
103 - improve performance of cwd on Win32 miniperl
105 3.60 - Wed Nov 18 21:28:01 EST 2015
106 - add File::Spec::AmigaOS -- and actually ship it, this time
108 3.59 - Fri Nov 13 18:38:01 EST 2015
109 - no changes since 5.58_01
111 3.58_01 - Mon Nov 9 17:35:28 EST 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
112 - add File::Spec::AmigaOS
113 - fix INSTALLDIRS on post-5.10 perls
115 3.56_02 - Thu Jul 16 11:28:57 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
116 - fix $VERSION in loaded modules
118 3.56_01 - Sat Jul 11 18:07:28 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
119 - CPAN release of the PathTools included in perl v5.22.0
120 - support for z/OS sysplexed systems
121 - long-deprecated "fixpath" and "eliminate_macros" VMS functions removed
122 - avoid turning leading // into / on cygwin
123 - Force barename base to be a directory in File::Spec::VMS:abs2rel
124 - Revise Unix syntax detection File::Spec::VMS::abs2rel
125 - compiles on Android now
126 - fewer compiler warnings
127 - eliminate some runtime perl warnings, too
129 3.47 - Fri May 23 18:52:00 2014
130 - Improved Android support.
131 - File::Spec::Unix->tmpdir: Always return an absolute path
132 - File::Spec now has an XS version for performance.
133 - QNX and VMS portability
134 - tmpdir is updated when the environment changes.
136 3.40 - Wed Jan 16 07:30:00 2013
137 - Stop inadvertently skipping Spec.t on VMS. (Craig Berry)
138 - Rethink EFS in File::Spec::VMS. (Craig Berry)
139 - File::Spec::UNIX->abs2rel() gets it wrong with ".." components
140 [perl #111510] (Volker Schatz)
141 - Add C define to remove taint support from perl (Steffen Mueller)
142 - Remove "register" declarations as they are no longer
143 useful (Karl Williamson)
144 - Add test for fast_abs_path in LF dir
145 [perl #115962] (Father Chrysostomos)
146 - Cwd::fast_abs_path's untaint should allow for multiline
147 directories (Joel Berger)
149 3.39_01 - Tue Dec 20 08:30:00 2011
150 - [perl #51562] Problem & "solution" for building 5.10.0 with
151 win32+mingw+dmake (kmx)
152 - Fix various compiler warnings from XS code (Zefram)
153 - Fix typos (spelling errors) (Peter J. Acklam)
154 - Remove Mac OS classic only tests from Cwd's Spec.t
155 and special case code from Cwd's cwd.t (Nicholas Clark)
156 - Convert File::Spec's remaining tests to Test::More from Test
158 - dist/Cwd/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm: Fix broken link (Karl Williamson)
159 - In Cwd::_win32_cwd() avoid a string eval when checking if we're
160 miniperl (Nicholas Clark)
161 - Add PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to Cwd (Nicholas Clark)
162 - In Cwd.xs on VMS, don't compile bsd_realpath() at all (Nicholas Clark)
163 - Merge the implementation of Cwd::{fastcwd,getcwd} using
164 ALIAS (Nicholas Clark)
165 - In Cwd.xs, swap to defaulting to disabled prototypes (Nicholas Clark)
166 - Remove duplicate $VERSION handling code, made redundant
167 in 3.28_01 (Nicholas Clark)
168 - In Cwd.xs, tidy the conditional code related to symlinks
170 - Keep verbatim pod within 80 cols (Father Chrysostomos)
171 - [RT #36079] Convert ` to ' in docs (Jim Keenan)
172 - [rt.cpan.org #45885] File::Spec: Don’t use tainted tmpdir
173 in 5.6 (Father Chrysostomos)
175 3.33 - Mon Sep 20 18:00:00 2010
176 - No functional changes since the previous release.
178 (part of core change2a6dc37471bea77f0c24fd1fe90c598a270c9968,
181 3.32 - Sun Sep 19 18:00:00 2010
183 - Promote to stable release.
185 3.31_03 - Fri Sep 17 20:00:00 2010
187 - Colon delimiter and escaped delimiters for File::Spec::VMS
188 This is core change 61196b433b2b (Craig A. Berry)
190 3.31_02 - Fri Jul 23 20:00:00 2010
192 - Add TODO test for File::Spec->rel2abs() when under a symlink.
193 - Make catpath return an empty directory rather than the current
194 directory if the directory name is empty. This allows catpath
195 to play nice with non-rooted logical names, as in
196 catpath('sys$login:', '', 'login.com');
198 - Fix abs2rel bug in handling a Unix-style input.
200 - Assorted clarification and simplification of the documentation.
203 3.31 - Sun Nov 1 15:15:00 2009
205 - Do not pack a Build.PL to avoid a circular dependency involving
206 ExtUtils::CBuilder (PathTools RT #50749)
208 3.30_02 - Tue Sep 29 08:17:00 2009
210 - Remove more special logic required for core perl.
212 3.30_01 - Mon Sep 21 14:39:00 2009
214 - Merge changes from core perl.
215 (Mostly changes regarding the lib->ext migration)
217 3.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009
219 - Promote to stable release.
221 3.29_01 - Thu May 7 20:22:00 2009
223 - Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
225 - Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
226 extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
228 - VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
229 (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
231 3.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
233 - Promote to stable release.
235 3.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
237 - In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
238 otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
240 3.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
242 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
243 slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
245 3.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
247 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
248 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
250 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
252 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
253 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
254 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
257 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
258 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
260 3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
262 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
263 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
264 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're
265 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
268 3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
270 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
271 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
274 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
276 3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
278 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
279 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
280 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
281 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
283 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
284 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
286 3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
288 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
289 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
291 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
293 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
294 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
295 because this fact can vary on different volumes.
297 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
298 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
299 was more appropriate.
301 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
303 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
305 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
308 3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
310 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
311 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
313 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
314 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will
315 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
316 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
319 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
320 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
322 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
324 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
325 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
327 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
328 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
331 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
332 hodgepodge of various numbers.
334 3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
336 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
337 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
339 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
340 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
342 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
343 avoid using it when in the core.
345 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
347 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
348 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
350 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
351 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
353 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
355 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
356 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
358 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
360 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
361 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
362 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
363 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
366 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
368 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
369 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
370 letter. [Reported by several parties]
372 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
374 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
375 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
377 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
378 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
379 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
380 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
383 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
384 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
385 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
386 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
387 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
389 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
391 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
392 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
393 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
394 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
395 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
396 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
398 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
399 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
400 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
401 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
403 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
404 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
407 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
409 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
410 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
412 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
413 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
415 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
416 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
418 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
420 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
421 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
422 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
423 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
424 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
425 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
427 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
429 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
430 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
432 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
433 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
434 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
436 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
437 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
438 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
439 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
440 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
441 by Eamon Daly and others]
443 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
445 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
446 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
447 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
448 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
449 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
450 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
452 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
453 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
454 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
455 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
456 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
458 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
459 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
460 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
462 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
463 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
464 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
467 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
468 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
470 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
472 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
473 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
474 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
475 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
476 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
477 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
479 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
480 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
481 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
483 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
485 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
486 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
487 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
488 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
489 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
491 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
492 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
494 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
495 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
496 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
498 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
500 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
502 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
503 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
505 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
508 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
510 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
511 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
513 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
515 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
516 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
517 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
519 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
520 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
521 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
522 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
524 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
526 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
527 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
528 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
531 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
532 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
534 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
535 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
536 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
537 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
539 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
541 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
542 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
544 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
546 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
547 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
549 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
552 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
553 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
554 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
556 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
557 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
559 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
561 (No changes in functionality)
563 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
566 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
567 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
569 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
571 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
572 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
574 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
575 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
576 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
579 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
580 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
582 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
584 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
585 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
586 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
587 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
588 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
591 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
592 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
595 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
596 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
598 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
600 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
601 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
603 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
604 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
605 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
607 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
608 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
609 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
611 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
613 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
614 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
616 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
617 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
619 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
620 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
621 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
623 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
624 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
625 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
627 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
628 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
630 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
632 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
633 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
635 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
636 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
637 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
639 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
640 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
642 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
643 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
644 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
646 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
647 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
648 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
649 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
651 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
652 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
653 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
654 with the rest of the stuff.
656 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
657 older perls like 5.005.
659 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
662 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
663 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
665 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
667 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
668 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
670 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
671 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
673 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
675 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
676 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
677 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
678 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
679 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
682 ==================================================================
683 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
684 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
685 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
686 ==================================================================
688 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
690 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
691 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
693 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
694 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
696 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
698 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
699 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
701 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
703 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
704 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
705 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
706 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
707 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
709 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
711 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
712 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
714 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
716 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
717 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
718 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
720 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
722 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
723 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
726 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
727 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
729 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
730 path separator is ':'.
732 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
733 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
734 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
736 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
739 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
741 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
742 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
745 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
747 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
748 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
749 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
751 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
753 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
754 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
755 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
757 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
759 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
760 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
761 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
762 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
764 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
766 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
767 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
769 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
772 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
774 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
775 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
777 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
779 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
780 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
783 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
784 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
786 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
788 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
790 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
791 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
792 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
793 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
795 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
796 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
798 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
801 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
802 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
804 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
807 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
809 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
810 release by Ken Williams.
812 ==================================================================
813 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
814 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
815 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
816 ==================================================================
818 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
820 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
821 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
822 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
824 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
826 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
827 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
829 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
830 path. [Craig A. Berry]
832 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
834 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
835 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
836 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
839 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
840 class. [Alexander Farber]
842 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
844 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
846 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
847 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
849 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
851 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
852 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
854 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
856 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
857 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
858 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
859 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
860 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
862 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
863 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
864 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
866 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
868 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
869 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
870 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
871 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
872 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
873 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
875 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
876 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
877 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
879 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
880 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
881 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
882 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
883 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
884 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
886 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
887 and now it returns '/'.
889 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
891 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
893 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
894 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
896 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
899 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
902 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
903 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
905 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
906 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
909 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
910 tests added for them:
911 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
912 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
913 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
914 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
915 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
916 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
917 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
919 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
920 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
921 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
923 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
925 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
926 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
927 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
930 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
933 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
934 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
935 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
936 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
937 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
938 broken relative path previous versions returned.
940 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
941 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
943 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
945 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
947 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
949 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
950 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
952 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
953 on platforms where it can't run properly.
955 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
957 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
958 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
959 from what I can tell, are listed here.
961 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
962 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
963 done by Thomas Wegner.
965 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
967 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
968 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
970 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
973 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
974 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
976 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
979 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
983 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
985 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
986 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
988 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
989 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
990 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
992 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
995 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
996 on its final argument.
998 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
1001 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
1002 relativity when no base is given.
1004 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
1007 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
1008 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
1010 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
1012 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
1014 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
1015 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
1016 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
1017 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
1018 needing to update the perl repository.
1019 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
1020 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
1021 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
1022 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
1023 arrives where method prototypes are honored.