1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
4 - avoid warning from pre-5.8 code for detecting tainted values
5 - make taint.t detect that a pre-5.8 Perl supports tainting
6 - avoid a dynamic linking problem on Perl 5.6
8 3.67 - Mon Feb 27 09:33:04 EST 2017
9 - Add security usage note to File::Spec::no_upwards
11 3.66 - Sat Nov 19 10:30:19 MST 2016
12 - white space change so can compile under C++11
14 3.65 - Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:15:33 -0700
15 - (perl #127384)(CVE-2016-1238)
17 3.64 - Tue May 24 10:00:19 MST 2016
18 - just minor pod changes to silence Pod::Checker
20 3.62 - Mon Jan 11 08:39:19 EST 2016
21 - ensure File::Spec::canonpath() preserves taint (CVE-2015-8607)
23 3.61 - Sun Dec 20 12:00:00 EST 2015 (bleadperl only release)
24 - improve performance of cwd on Win32 miniperl
26 3.60 - Wed Nov 18 21:28:01 EST 2015
27 - add File::Spec::AmigaOS -- and actually ship it, this time
29 3.59 - Fri Nov 13 18:38:01 EST 2015
30 - no changes since 5.58_01
32 3.58_01 - Mon Nov 9 17:35:28 EST 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
33 - add File::Spec::AmigaOS
34 - fix INSTALLDIRS on post-5.10 perls
36 3.56_02 - Thu Jul 16 11:28:57 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
37 - fix $VERSION in loaded modules
39 3.56_01 - Sat Jul 11 18:07:28 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
40 - CPAN release of the PathTools included in perl v5.22.0
41 - support for z/OS sysplexed systems
42 - long-deprecated "fixpath" and "eliminate_macros" VMS functions removed
43 - avoid turning leading // into / on cygwin
44 - Force barename base to be a directory in File::Spec::VMS:abs2rel
45 - Revise Unix syntax detection File::Spec::VMS::abs2rel
46 - compiles on Android now
47 - fewer compiler warnings
48 - eliminate some runtime perl warnings, too
50 3.47 - Fri May 23 18:52:00 2014
51 - Improved Android support.
52 - File::Spec::Unix->tmpdir: Always return an absolute path
53 - File::Spec now has an XS version for performance.
54 - QNX and VMS portability
55 - tmpdir is updated when the environment changes.
57 3.40 - Wed Jan 16 07:30:00 2013
58 - Stop inadvertently skipping Spec.t on VMS. (Craig Berry)
59 - Rethink EFS in File::Spec::VMS. (Craig Berry)
60 - File::Spec::UNIX->abs2rel() gets it wrong with ".." components
61 [perl #111510] (Volker Schatz)
62 - Add C define to remove taint support from perl (Steffen Mueller)
63 - Remove "register" declarations as they are no longer
64 useful (Karl Williamson)
65 - Add test for fast_abs_path in LF dir
66 [perl #115962] (Father Chrysostomos)
67 - Cwd::fast_abs_path's untaint should allow for multiline
68 directories (Joel Berger)
70 3.39_01 - Tue Dec 20 08:30:00 2011
71 - [perl #51562] Problem & "solution" for building 5.10.0 with
72 win32+mingw+dmake (kmx)
73 - Fix various compiler warnings from XS code (Zefram)
74 - Fix typos (spelling errors) (Peter J. Acklam)
75 - Remove Mac OS classic only tests from Cwd's Spec.t
76 and special case code from Cwd's cwd.t (Nicholas Clark)
77 - Convert File::Spec's remaining tests to Test::More from Test
79 - dist/Cwd/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm: Fix broken link (Karl Williamson)
80 - In Cwd::_win32_cwd() avoid a string eval when checking if we're
81 miniperl (Nicholas Clark)
82 - Add PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to Cwd (Nicholas Clark)
83 - In Cwd.xs on VMS, don't compile bsd_realpath() at all (Nicholas Clark)
84 - Merge the implementation of Cwd::{fastcwd,getcwd} using
85 ALIAS (Nicholas Clark)
86 - In Cwd.xs, swap to defaulting to disabled prototypes (Nicholas Clark)
87 - Remove duplicate $VERSION handling code, made redundant
88 in 3.28_01 (Nicholas Clark)
89 - In Cwd.xs, tidy the conditional code related to symlinks
91 - Keep verbatim pod within 80 cols (Father Chrysostomos)
92 - [RT #36079] Convert ` to ' in docs (Jim Keenan)
93 - [rt.cpan.org #45885] File::Spec: Don’t use tainted tmpdir
94 in 5.6 (Father Chrysostomos)
96 3.33 - Mon Sep 20 18:00:00 2010
97 - No functional changes since the previous release.
99 (part of core change2a6dc37471bea77f0c24fd1fe90c598a270c9968,
102 3.32 - Sun Sep 19 18:00:00 2010
104 - Promote to stable release.
106 3.31_03 - Fri Sep 17 20:00:00 2010
108 - Colon delimiter and escaped delimiters for File::Spec::VMS
109 This is core change 61196b433b2b (Craig A. Berry)
111 3.31_02 - Fri Jul 23 20:00:00 2010
113 - Add TODO test for File::Spec->rel2abs() when under a symlink.
114 - Make catpath return an empty directory rather than the current
115 directory if the directory name is empty. This allows catpath
116 to play nice with non-rooted logical names, as in
117 catpath('sys$login:', '', 'login.com');
119 - Fix abs2rel bug in handling a Unix-style input.
121 - Assorted clarification and simplification of the documentation.
124 3.31 - Sun Nov 1 15:15:00 2009
126 - Do not pack a Build.PL to avoid a circular dependency involving
127 ExtUtils::CBuilder (PathTools RT #50749)
129 3.30_02 - Tue Sep 29 08:17:00 2009
131 - Remove more special logic required for core perl.
133 3.30_01 - Mon Sep 21 14:39:00 2009
135 - Merge changes from core perl.
136 (Mostly changes regarding the lib->ext migration)
138 3.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009
140 - Promote to stable release.
142 3.29_01 - Thu May 7 20:22:00 2009
144 - Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
146 - Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
147 extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
149 - VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
150 (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
152 3.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
154 - Promote to stable release.
156 3.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
158 - In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
159 otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
161 3.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
163 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
164 slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
166 3.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
168 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
169 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
171 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
173 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
174 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
175 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
178 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
179 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
181 3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
183 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
184 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
185 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're
186 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
189 3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
191 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
192 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
195 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
197 3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
199 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
200 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
201 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
202 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
204 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
205 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
207 3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
209 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
210 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
212 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
214 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
215 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
216 because this fact can vary on different volumes.
218 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
219 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
220 was more appropriate.
222 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
224 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
226 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
229 3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
231 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
232 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
234 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
235 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will
236 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
237 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
240 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
241 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
243 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
245 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
246 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
248 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
249 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
252 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
253 hodgepodge of various numbers.
255 3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
257 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
258 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
260 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
261 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
263 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
264 avoid using it when in the core.
266 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
268 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
269 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
271 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
272 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
274 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
276 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
277 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
279 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
281 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
282 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
283 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
284 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
287 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
289 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
290 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
291 letter. [Reported by several parties]
293 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
295 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
296 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
298 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
299 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
300 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
301 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
304 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
305 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
306 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
307 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
308 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
310 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
312 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
313 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
314 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
315 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
316 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
317 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
319 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
320 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
321 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
322 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
324 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
325 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
328 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
330 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
331 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
333 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
334 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
336 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
337 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
339 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
341 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
342 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
343 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
344 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
345 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
346 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
348 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
350 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
351 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
353 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
354 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
355 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
357 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
358 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
359 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
360 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
361 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
362 by Eamon Daly and others]
364 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
366 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
367 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
368 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
369 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
370 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
371 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
373 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
374 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
375 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
376 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
377 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
379 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
380 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
381 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
383 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
384 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
385 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
388 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
389 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
391 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
393 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
394 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
395 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
396 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
397 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
398 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
400 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
401 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
402 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
404 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
406 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
407 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
408 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
409 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
410 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
412 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
413 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
415 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
416 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
417 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
419 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
421 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
423 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
424 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
426 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
429 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
431 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
432 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
434 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
436 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
437 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
438 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
440 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
441 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
442 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
443 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
445 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
447 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
448 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
449 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
452 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
453 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
455 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
456 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
457 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
458 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
460 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
462 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
463 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
465 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
467 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
468 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
470 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
473 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
474 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
475 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
477 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
478 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
480 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
482 (No changes in functionality)
484 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
487 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
488 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
490 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
492 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
493 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
495 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
496 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
497 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
500 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
501 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
503 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
505 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
506 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
507 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
508 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
509 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
512 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
513 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
516 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
517 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
519 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
521 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
522 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
524 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
525 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
526 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
528 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
529 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
530 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
532 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
534 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
535 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
537 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
538 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
540 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
541 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
542 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
544 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
545 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
546 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
548 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
549 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
551 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
553 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
554 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
556 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
557 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
558 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
560 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
561 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
563 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
564 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
565 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
567 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
568 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
569 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
570 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
572 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
573 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
574 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
575 with the rest of the stuff.
577 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
578 older perls like 5.005.
580 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
583 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
584 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
586 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
588 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
589 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
591 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
592 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
594 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
596 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
597 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
598 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
599 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
600 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
603 ==================================================================
604 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
605 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
606 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
607 ==================================================================
609 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
611 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
612 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
614 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
615 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
617 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
619 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
620 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
622 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
624 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
625 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
626 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
627 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
628 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
630 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
632 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
633 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
635 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
637 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
638 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
639 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
641 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
643 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
644 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
647 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
648 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
650 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
651 path separator is ':'.
653 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
654 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
655 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
657 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
660 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
662 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
663 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
666 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
668 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
669 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
670 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
672 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
674 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
675 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
676 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
678 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
680 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
681 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
682 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
683 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
685 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
687 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
688 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
690 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
693 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
695 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
696 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
698 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
700 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
701 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
704 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
705 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
707 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
709 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
711 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
712 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
713 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
714 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
716 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
717 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
719 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
722 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
723 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
725 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
728 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
730 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
731 release by Ken Williams.
733 ==================================================================
734 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
735 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
736 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
737 ==================================================================
739 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
741 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
742 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
743 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
745 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
747 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
748 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
750 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
751 path. [Craig A. Berry]
753 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
755 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
756 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
757 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
760 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
761 class. [Alexander Farber]
763 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
765 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
767 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
768 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
770 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
772 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
773 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
775 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
777 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
778 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
779 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
780 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
781 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
783 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
784 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
785 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
787 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
789 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
790 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
791 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
792 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
793 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
794 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
796 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
797 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
798 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
800 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
801 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
802 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
803 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
804 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
805 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
807 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
808 and now it returns '/'.
810 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
812 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
814 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
815 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
817 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
820 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
823 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
824 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
826 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
827 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
830 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
831 tests added for them:
832 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
833 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
834 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
835 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
836 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
837 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
838 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
840 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
841 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
842 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
844 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
846 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
847 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
848 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
851 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
854 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
855 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
856 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
857 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
858 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
859 broken relative path previous versions returned.
861 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
862 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
864 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
866 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
868 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
870 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
871 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
873 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
874 on platforms where it can't run properly.
876 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
878 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
879 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
880 from what I can tell, are listed here.
882 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
883 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
884 done by Thomas Wegner.
886 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
888 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
889 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
891 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
894 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
895 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
897 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
900 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
904 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
906 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
907 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
909 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
910 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
911 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
913 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
916 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
917 on its final argument.
919 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
922 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
923 relativity when no base is given.
925 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
928 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
929 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
931 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
933 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
935 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
936 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
937 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
938 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
939 needing to update the perl repository.
940 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
941 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
942 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
943 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
944 arrives where method prototypes are honored.