1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
4 - avoid loading modules repeatedly at runtime
5 - replace 'use vars' by 'our'
8 - avoid warning from pre-5.8 code for detecting tainted values
9 - make taint.t detect that a pre-5.8 Perl supports tainting
10 - avoid a dynamic linking problem on Perl 5.6
12 3.67 - Mon Feb 27 09:33:04 EST 2017
13 - Add security usage note to File::Spec::no_upwards
15 3.66 - Sat Nov 19 10:30:19 MST 2016
16 - white space change so can compile under C++11
18 3.65 - Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:15:33 -0700
19 - (perl #127384)(CVE-2016-1238)
21 3.64 - Tue May 24 10:00:19 MST 2016
22 - just minor pod changes to silence Pod::Checker
24 3.62 - Mon Jan 11 08:39:19 EST 2016
25 - ensure File::Spec::canonpath() preserves taint (CVE-2015-8607)
27 3.61 - Sun Dec 20 12:00:00 EST 2015 (bleadperl only release)
28 - improve performance of cwd on Win32 miniperl
30 3.60 - Wed Nov 18 21:28:01 EST 2015
31 - add File::Spec::AmigaOS -- and actually ship it, this time
33 3.59 - Fri Nov 13 18:38:01 EST 2015
34 - no changes since 5.58_01
36 3.58_01 - Mon Nov 9 17:35:28 EST 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
37 - add File::Spec::AmigaOS
38 - fix INSTALLDIRS on post-5.10 perls
40 3.56_02 - Thu Jul 16 11:28:57 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
41 - fix $VERSION in loaded modules
43 3.56_01 - Sat Jul 11 18:07:28 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
44 - CPAN release of the PathTools included in perl v5.22.0
45 - support for z/OS sysplexed systems
46 - long-deprecated "fixpath" and "eliminate_macros" VMS functions removed
47 - avoid turning leading // into / on cygwin
48 - Force barename base to be a directory in File::Spec::VMS:abs2rel
49 - Revise Unix syntax detection File::Spec::VMS::abs2rel
50 - compiles on Android now
51 - fewer compiler warnings
52 - eliminate some runtime perl warnings, too
54 3.47 - Fri May 23 18:52:00 2014
55 - Improved Android support.
56 - File::Spec::Unix->tmpdir: Always return an absolute path
57 - File::Spec now has an XS version for performance.
58 - QNX and VMS portability
59 - tmpdir is updated when the environment changes.
61 3.40 - Wed Jan 16 07:30:00 2013
62 - Stop inadvertently skipping Spec.t on VMS. (Craig Berry)
63 - Rethink EFS in File::Spec::VMS. (Craig Berry)
64 - File::Spec::UNIX->abs2rel() gets it wrong with ".." components
65 [perl #111510] (Volker Schatz)
66 - Add C define to remove taint support from perl (Steffen Mueller)
67 - Remove "register" declarations as they are no longer
68 useful (Karl Williamson)
69 - Add test for fast_abs_path in LF dir
70 [perl #115962] (Father Chrysostomos)
71 - Cwd::fast_abs_path's untaint should allow for multiline
72 directories (Joel Berger)
74 3.39_01 - Tue Dec 20 08:30:00 2011
75 - [perl #51562] Problem & "solution" for building 5.10.0 with
76 win32+mingw+dmake (kmx)
77 - Fix various compiler warnings from XS code (Zefram)
78 - Fix typos (spelling errors) (Peter J. Acklam)
79 - Remove Mac OS classic only tests from Cwd's Spec.t
80 and special case code from Cwd's cwd.t (Nicholas Clark)
81 - Convert File::Spec's remaining tests to Test::More from Test
83 - dist/Cwd/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm: Fix broken link (Karl Williamson)
84 - In Cwd::_win32_cwd() avoid a string eval when checking if we're
85 miniperl (Nicholas Clark)
86 - Add PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to Cwd (Nicholas Clark)
87 - In Cwd.xs on VMS, don't compile bsd_realpath() at all (Nicholas Clark)
88 - Merge the implementation of Cwd::{fastcwd,getcwd} using
89 ALIAS (Nicholas Clark)
90 - In Cwd.xs, swap to defaulting to disabled prototypes (Nicholas Clark)
91 - Remove duplicate $VERSION handling code, made redundant
92 in 3.28_01 (Nicholas Clark)
93 - In Cwd.xs, tidy the conditional code related to symlinks
95 - Keep verbatim pod within 80 cols (Father Chrysostomos)
96 - [RT #36079] Convert ` to ' in docs (Jim Keenan)
97 - [rt.cpan.org #45885] File::Spec: Don’t use tainted tmpdir
98 in 5.6 (Father Chrysostomos)
100 3.33 - Mon Sep 20 18:00:00 2010
101 - No functional changes since the previous release.
103 (part of core change2a6dc37471bea77f0c24fd1fe90c598a270c9968,
106 3.32 - Sun Sep 19 18:00:00 2010
108 - Promote to stable release.
110 3.31_03 - Fri Sep 17 20:00:00 2010
112 - Colon delimiter and escaped delimiters for File::Spec::VMS
113 This is core change 61196b433b2b (Craig A. Berry)
115 3.31_02 - Fri Jul 23 20:00:00 2010
117 - Add TODO test for File::Spec->rel2abs() when under a symlink.
118 - Make catpath return an empty directory rather than the current
119 directory if the directory name is empty. This allows catpath
120 to play nice with non-rooted logical names, as in
121 catpath('sys$login:', '', 'login.com');
123 - Fix abs2rel bug in handling a Unix-style input.
125 - Assorted clarification and simplification of the documentation.
128 3.31 - Sun Nov 1 15:15:00 2009
130 - Do not pack a Build.PL to avoid a circular dependency involving
131 ExtUtils::CBuilder (PathTools RT #50749)
133 3.30_02 - Tue Sep 29 08:17:00 2009
135 - Remove more special logic required for core perl.
137 3.30_01 - Mon Sep 21 14:39:00 2009
139 - Merge changes from core perl.
140 (Mostly changes regarding the lib->ext migration)
142 3.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009
144 - Promote to stable release.
146 3.29_01 - Thu May 7 20:22:00 2009
148 - Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
150 - Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
151 extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
153 - VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
154 (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
156 3.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
158 - Promote to stable release.
160 3.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
162 - In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
163 otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
165 3.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
167 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
168 slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
170 3.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
172 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
173 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
175 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
177 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
178 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
179 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
182 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
183 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
185 3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
187 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
188 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
189 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're
190 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
193 3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
195 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
196 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
199 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
201 3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
203 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
204 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
205 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
206 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
208 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
209 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
211 3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
213 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
214 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
216 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
218 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
219 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
220 because this fact can vary on different volumes.
222 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
223 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
224 was more appropriate.
226 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
228 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
230 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
233 3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
235 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
236 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
238 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
239 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will
240 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
241 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
244 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
245 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
247 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
249 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
250 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
252 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
253 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
256 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
257 hodgepodge of various numbers.
259 3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
261 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
262 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
264 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
265 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
267 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
268 avoid using it when in the core.
270 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
272 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
273 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
275 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
276 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
278 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
280 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
281 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
283 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
285 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
286 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
287 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
288 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
291 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
293 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
294 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
295 letter. [Reported by several parties]
297 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
299 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
300 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
302 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
303 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
304 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
305 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
308 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
309 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
310 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
311 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
312 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
314 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
316 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
317 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
318 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
319 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
320 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
321 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
323 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
324 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
325 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
326 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
328 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
329 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
332 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
334 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
335 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
337 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
338 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
340 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
341 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
343 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
345 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
346 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
347 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
348 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
349 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
350 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
352 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
354 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
355 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
357 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
358 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
359 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
361 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
362 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
363 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
364 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
365 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
366 by Eamon Daly and others]
368 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
370 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
371 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
372 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
373 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
374 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
375 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
377 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
378 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
379 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
380 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
381 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
383 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
384 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
385 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
387 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
388 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
389 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
392 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
393 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
395 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
397 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
398 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
399 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
400 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
401 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
402 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
404 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
405 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
406 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
408 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
410 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
411 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
412 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
413 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
414 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
416 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
417 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
419 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
420 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
421 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
423 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
425 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
427 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
428 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
430 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
433 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
435 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
436 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
438 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
440 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
441 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
442 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
444 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
445 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
446 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
447 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
449 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
451 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
452 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
453 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
456 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
457 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
459 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
460 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
461 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
462 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
464 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
466 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
467 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
469 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
471 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
472 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
474 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
477 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
478 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
479 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
481 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
482 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
484 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
486 (No changes in functionality)
488 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
491 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
492 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
494 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
496 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
497 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
499 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
500 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
501 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
504 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
505 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
507 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
509 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
510 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
511 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
512 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
513 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
516 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
517 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
520 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
521 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
523 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
525 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
526 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
528 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
529 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
530 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
532 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
533 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
534 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
536 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
538 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
539 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
541 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
542 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
544 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
545 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
546 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
548 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
549 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
550 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
552 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
553 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
555 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
557 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
558 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
560 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
561 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
562 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
564 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
565 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
567 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
568 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
569 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
571 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
572 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
573 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
574 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
576 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
577 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
578 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
579 with the rest of the stuff.
581 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
582 older perls like 5.005.
584 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
587 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
588 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
590 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
592 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
593 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
595 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
596 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
598 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
600 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
601 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
602 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
603 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
604 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
607 ==================================================================
608 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
609 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
610 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
611 ==================================================================
613 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
615 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
616 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
618 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
619 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
621 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
623 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
624 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
626 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
628 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
629 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
630 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
631 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
632 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
634 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
636 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
637 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
639 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
641 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
642 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
643 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
645 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
647 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
648 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
651 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
652 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
654 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
655 path separator is ':'.
657 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
658 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
659 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
661 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
664 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
666 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
667 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
670 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
672 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
673 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
674 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
676 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
678 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
679 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
680 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
682 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
684 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
685 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
686 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
687 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
689 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
691 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
692 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
694 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
697 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
699 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
700 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
702 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
704 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
705 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
708 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
709 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
711 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
713 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
715 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
716 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
717 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
718 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
720 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
721 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
723 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
726 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
727 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
729 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
732 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
734 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
735 release by Ken Williams.
737 ==================================================================
738 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
739 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
740 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
741 ==================================================================
743 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
745 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
746 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
747 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
749 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
751 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
752 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
754 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
755 path. [Craig A. Berry]
757 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
759 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
760 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
761 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
764 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
765 class. [Alexander Farber]
767 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
769 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
771 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
772 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
774 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
776 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
777 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
779 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
781 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
782 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
783 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
784 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
785 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
787 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
788 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
789 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
791 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
793 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
794 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
795 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
796 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
797 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
798 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
800 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
801 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
802 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
804 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
805 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
806 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
807 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
808 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
809 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
811 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
812 and now it returns '/'.
814 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
816 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
818 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
819 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
821 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
824 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
827 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
828 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
830 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
831 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
834 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
835 tests added for them:
836 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
837 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
838 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
839 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
840 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
841 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
842 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
844 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
845 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
846 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
848 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
850 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
851 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
852 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
855 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
858 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
859 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
860 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
861 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
862 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
863 broken relative path previous versions returned.
865 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
866 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
868 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
870 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
872 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
874 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
875 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
877 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
878 on platforms where it can't run properly.
880 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
882 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
883 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
884 from what I can tell, are listed here.
886 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
887 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
888 done by Thomas Wegner.
890 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
892 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
893 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
895 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
898 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
899 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
901 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
904 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
908 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
910 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
911 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
913 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
914 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
915 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
917 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
920 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
921 on its final argument.
923 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
926 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
927 relativity when no base is given.
929 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
932 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
933 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
935 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
937 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
939 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
940 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
941 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
942 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
943 needing to update the perl repository.
944 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
945 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
946 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
947 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
948 arrives where method prototypes are honored.