1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
7 - Define NEED_croak_xs_usage, fixing usage of croak_xs_usage()
8 - [perl #132853] Add metadata (ABSTRACT, LICENSE, AUTHOR)
9 - [perl #132733] Skip cwd_enoent test on Cygwin
10 - [perl #132651] Avoid infinite recursion in _perl_abs_path()
11 - [rt.cpan.org #114236] Compatibility with File::Path 2.06_04
14 - [perl #132648] Correct error returns from fast_abs_path()
17 - [perl #130818] Remove support for running PathTools on MacOS
21 - Change strcmp into the easier to read strEQ
24 - avoid loading modules repeatedly at runtime
25 - replace 'use vars' by 'our'
26 - Switch to XSLoader from Dynaloader
29 - avoid warning from pre-5.8 code for detecting tainted values
30 - make taint.t detect that a pre-5.8 Perl supports tainting
31 - avoid a dynamic linking problem on Perl 5.6
33 3.67 - Mon Feb 27 09:33:04 EST 2017
34 - Add security usage note to File::Spec::no_upwards
36 3.66 - Sat Nov 19 10:30:19 MST 2016
37 - white space change so can compile under C++11
39 3.65 - Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:15:33 -0700
40 - (perl #127384)(CVE-2016-1238)
42 3.64 - Tue May 24 10:00:19 MST 2016
43 - just minor pod changes to silence Pod::Checker
45 3.62 - Mon Jan 11 08:39:19 EST 2016
46 - ensure File::Spec::canonpath() preserves taint (CVE-2015-8607)
48 3.61 - Sun Dec 20 12:00:00 EST 2015 (bleadperl only release)
49 - improve performance of cwd on Win32 miniperl
51 3.60 - Wed Nov 18 21:28:01 EST 2015
52 - add File::Spec::AmigaOS -- and actually ship it, this time
54 3.59 - Fri Nov 13 18:38:01 EST 2015
55 - no changes since 5.58_01
57 3.58_01 - Mon Nov 9 17:35:28 EST 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
58 - add File::Spec::AmigaOS
59 - fix INSTALLDIRS on post-5.10 perls
61 3.56_02 - Thu Jul 16 11:28:57 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
62 - fix $VERSION in loaded modules
64 3.56_01 - Sat Jul 11 18:07:28 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
65 - CPAN release of the PathTools included in perl v5.22.0
66 - support for z/OS sysplexed systems
67 - long-deprecated "fixpath" and "eliminate_macros" VMS functions removed
68 - avoid turning leading // into / on cygwin
69 - Force barename base to be a directory in File::Spec::VMS:abs2rel
70 - Revise Unix syntax detection File::Spec::VMS::abs2rel
71 - compiles on Android now
72 - fewer compiler warnings
73 - eliminate some runtime perl warnings, too
75 3.47 - Fri May 23 18:52:00 2014
76 - Improved Android support.
77 - File::Spec::Unix->tmpdir: Always return an absolute path
78 - File::Spec now has an XS version for performance.
79 - QNX and VMS portability
80 - tmpdir is updated when the environment changes.
82 3.40 - Wed Jan 16 07:30:00 2013
83 - Stop inadvertently skipping Spec.t on VMS. (Craig Berry)
84 - Rethink EFS in File::Spec::VMS. (Craig Berry)
85 - File::Spec::UNIX->abs2rel() gets it wrong with ".." components
86 [perl #111510] (Volker Schatz)
87 - Add C define to remove taint support from perl (Steffen Mueller)
88 - Remove "register" declarations as they are no longer
89 useful (Karl Williamson)
90 - Add test for fast_abs_path in LF dir
91 [perl #115962] (Father Chrysostomos)
92 - Cwd::fast_abs_path's untaint should allow for multiline
93 directories (Joel Berger)
95 3.39_01 - Tue Dec 20 08:30:00 2011
96 - [perl #51562] Problem & "solution" for building 5.10.0 with
97 win32+mingw+dmake (kmx)
98 - Fix various compiler warnings from XS code (Zefram)
99 - Fix typos (spelling errors) (Peter J. Acklam)
100 - Remove Mac OS classic only tests from Cwd's Spec.t
101 and special case code from Cwd's cwd.t (Nicholas Clark)
102 - Convert File::Spec's remaining tests to Test::More from Test
104 - dist/Cwd/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm: Fix broken link (Karl Williamson)
105 - In Cwd::_win32_cwd() avoid a string eval when checking if we're
106 miniperl (Nicholas Clark)
107 - Add PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to Cwd (Nicholas Clark)
108 - In Cwd.xs on VMS, don't compile bsd_realpath() at all (Nicholas Clark)
109 - Merge the implementation of Cwd::{fastcwd,getcwd} using
110 ALIAS (Nicholas Clark)
111 - In Cwd.xs, swap to defaulting to disabled prototypes (Nicholas Clark)
112 - Remove duplicate $VERSION handling code, made redundant
113 in 3.28_01 (Nicholas Clark)
114 - In Cwd.xs, tidy the conditional code related to symlinks
116 - Keep verbatim pod within 80 cols (Father Chrysostomos)
117 - [RT #36079] Convert ` to ' in docs (Jim Keenan)
118 - [rt.cpan.org #45885] File::Spec: Don’t use tainted tmpdir
119 in 5.6 (Father Chrysostomos)
121 3.33 - Mon Sep 20 18:00:00 2010
122 - No functional changes since the previous release.
124 (part of core change2a6dc37471bea77f0c24fd1fe90c598a270c9968,
127 3.32 - Sun Sep 19 18:00:00 2010
129 - Promote to stable release.
131 3.31_03 - Fri Sep 17 20:00:00 2010
133 - Colon delimiter and escaped delimiters for File::Spec::VMS
134 This is core change 61196b433b2b (Craig A. Berry)
136 3.31_02 - Fri Jul 23 20:00:00 2010
138 - Add TODO test for File::Spec->rel2abs() when under a symlink.
139 - Make catpath return an empty directory rather than the current
140 directory if the directory name is empty. This allows catpath
141 to play nice with non-rooted logical names, as in
142 catpath('sys$login:', '', 'login.com');
144 - Fix abs2rel bug in handling a Unix-style input.
146 - Assorted clarification and simplification of the documentation.
149 3.31 - Sun Nov 1 15:15:00 2009
151 - Do not pack a Build.PL to avoid a circular dependency involving
152 ExtUtils::CBuilder (PathTools RT #50749)
154 3.30_02 - Tue Sep 29 08:17:00 2009
156 - Remove more special logic required for core perl.
158 3.30_01 - Mon Sep 21 14:39:00 2009
160 - Merge changes from core perl.
161 (Mostly changes regarding the lib->ext migration)
163 3.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009
165 - Promote to stable release.
167 3.29_01 - Thu May 7 20:22:00 2009
169 - Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
171 - Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
172 extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
174 - VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
175 (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
177 3.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
179 - Promote to stable release.
181 3.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
183 - In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
184 otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
186 3.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
188 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
189 slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
191 3.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
193 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
194 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
196 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
198 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
199 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
200 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
203 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
204 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
206 3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
208 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
209 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
210 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're
211 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
214 3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
216 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
217 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
220 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
222 3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
224 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
225 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
226 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
227 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
229 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
230 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
232 3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
234 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
235 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
237 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
239 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
240 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
241 because this fact can vary on different volumes.
243 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
244 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
245 was more appropriate.
247 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
249 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
251 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
254 3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
256 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
257 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
259 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
260 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will
261 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
262 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
265 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
266 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
268 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
270 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
271 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
273 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
274 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
277 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
278 hodgepodge of various numbers.
280 3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
282 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
283 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
285 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
286 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
288 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
289 avoid using it when in the core.
291 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
293 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
294 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
296 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
297 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
299 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
301 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
302 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
304 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
306 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
307 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
308 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
309 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
312 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
314 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
315 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
316 letter. [Reported by several parties]
318 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
320 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
321 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
323 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
324 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
325 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
326 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
329 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
330 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
331 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
332 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
333 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
335 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
337 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
338 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
339 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
340 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
341 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
342 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
344 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
345 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
346 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
347 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
349 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
350 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
353 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
355 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
356 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
358 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
359 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
361 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
362 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
364 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
366 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
367 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
368 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
369 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
370 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
371 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
373 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
375 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
376 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
378 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
379 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
380 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
382 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
383 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
384 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
385 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
386 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
387 by Eamon Daly and others]
389 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
391 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
392 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
393 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
394 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
395 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
396 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
398 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
399 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
400 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
401 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
402 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
404 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
405 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
406 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
408 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
409 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
410 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
413 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
414 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
416 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
418 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
419 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
420 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
421 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
422 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
423 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
425 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
426 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
427 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
429 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
431 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
432 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
433 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
434 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
435 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
437 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
438 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
440 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
441 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
442 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
444 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
446 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
448 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
449 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
451 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
454 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
456 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
457 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
459 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
461 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
462 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
463 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
465 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
466 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
467 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
468 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
470 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
472 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
473 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
474 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
477 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
478 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
480 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
481 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
482 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
483 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
485 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
487 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
488 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
490 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
492 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
493 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
495 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
498 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
499 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
500 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
502 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
503 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
505 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
507 (No changes in functionality)
509 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
512 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
513 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
515 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
517 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
518 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
520 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
521 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
522 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
525 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
526 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
528 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
530 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
531 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
532 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
533 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
534 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
537 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
538 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
541 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
542 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
544 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
546 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
547 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
549 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
550 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
551 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
553 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
554 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
555 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
557 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
559 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
560 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
562 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
563 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
565 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
566 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
567 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
569 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
570 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
571 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
573 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
574 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
576 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
578 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
579 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
581 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
582 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
583 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
585 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
586 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
588 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
589 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
590 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
592 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
593 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
594 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
595 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
597 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
598 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
599 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
600 with the rest of the stuff.
602 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
603 older perls like 5.005.
605 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
608 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
609 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
611 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
613 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
614 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
616 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
617 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
619 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
621 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
622 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
623 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
624 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
625 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
628 ==================================================================
629 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
630 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
631 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
632 ==================================================================
634 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
636 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
637 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
639 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
640 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
642 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
644 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
645 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
647 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
649 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
650 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
651 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
652 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
653 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
655 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
657 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
658 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
660 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
662 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
663 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
664 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
666 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
668 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
669 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
672 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
673 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
675 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
676 path separator is ':'.
678 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
679 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
680 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
682 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
685 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
687 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
688 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
691 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
693 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
694 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
695 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
697 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
699 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
700 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
701 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
703 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
705 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
706 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
707 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
708 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
710 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
712 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
713 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
715 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
718 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
720 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
721 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
723 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
725 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
726 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
729 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
730 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
732 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
734 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
736 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
737 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
738 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
739 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
741 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
742 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
744 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
747 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
748 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
750 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
753 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
755 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
756 release by Ken Williams.
758 ==================================================================
759 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
760 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
761 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
762 ==================================================================
764 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
766 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
767 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
768 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
770 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
772 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
773 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
775 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
776 path. [Craig A. Berry]
778 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
780 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
781 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
782 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
785 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
786 class. [Alexander Farber]
788 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
790 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
792 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
793 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
795 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
797 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
798 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
800 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
802 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
803 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
804 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
805 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
806 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
808 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
809 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
810 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
812 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
814 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
815 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
816 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
817 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
818 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
819 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
821 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
822 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
823 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
825 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
826 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
827 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
828 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
829 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
830 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
832 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
833 and now it returns '/'.
835 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
837 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
839 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
840 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
842 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
845 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
848 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
849 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
851 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
852 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
855 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
856 tests added for them:
857 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
858 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
859 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
860 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
861 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
862 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
863 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
865 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
866 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
867 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
869 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
871 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
872 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
873 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
876 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
879 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
880 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
881 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
882 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
883 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
884 broken relative path previous versions returned.
886 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
887 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
889 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
891 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
893 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
895 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
896 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
898 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
899 on platforms where it can't run properly.
901 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
903 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
904 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
905 from what I can tell, are listed here.
907 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
908 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
909 done by Thomas Wegner.
911 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
913 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
914 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
916 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
919 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
920 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
922 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
925 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
929 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
931 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
932 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
934 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
935 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
936 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
938 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
941 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
942 on its final argument.
944 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
947 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
948 relativity when no base is given.
950 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
953 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
954 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
956 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
958 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
960 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
961 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
962 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
963 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
964 needing to update the perl repository.
965 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
966 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
967 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
968 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
969 arrives where method prototypes are honored.