1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 3.31 - Sun Nov 1 15:15:00 2009
5 - Do not pack a Build.PL to avoid a circular dependency involving
6 ExtUtils::CBuilder (PathTools RT #50749)
8 3.30_02 - Tue Sep 29 08:17:00 2009
10 - Remove more special logic required for core perl.
12 3.30_01 - Mon Sep 21 14:39:00 2009
14 - Merge changes from core perl.
15 (Mostly changes regarding the lib->ext migration)
17 3.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009
19 - Promote to stable release.
21 3.29_01 - Thu May 7 20:22:00 2009
23 - Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
25 - Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
26 extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
28 - VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
29 (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
31 3.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
33 - Promote to stable release.
35 3.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
37 - In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
38 otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
40 3.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
42 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
43 slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
45 3.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
47 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
48 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
50 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
52 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
53 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
54 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
57 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
58 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
60 3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
62 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
63 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
64 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're
65 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
68 3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
70 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
71 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
74 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
76 3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
78 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
79 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
80 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
81 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
83 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
84 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
86 3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
88 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
89 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
91 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
93 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
94 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
95 because this fact can vary on different volumes.
97 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
98 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
101 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
103 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
105 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
108 3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
110 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
111 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
113 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
114 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will
115 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
116 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
119 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
120 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
122 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
124 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
125 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
127 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
128 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
131 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
132 hodgepodge of various numbers.
134 3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
136 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
137 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
139 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
140 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
142 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
143 avoid using it when in the core.
145 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
147 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
148 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
150 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
151 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
153 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
155 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
156 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
158 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
160 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
161 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
162 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
163 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
166 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
168 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
169 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
170 letter. [Reported by several parties]
172 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
174 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
175 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
177 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
178 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
179 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
180 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
183 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
184 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
185 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
186 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
187 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
189 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
191 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
192 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
193 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
194 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
195 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
196 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
198 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
199 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
200 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
201 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
203 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
204 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
207 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
209 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
210 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
212 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
213 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
215 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
216 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
218 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
220 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
221 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
222 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
223 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
224 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
225 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
227 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
229 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
230 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
232 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
233 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
234 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
236 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
237 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
238 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
239 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
240 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
241 by Eamon Daly and others]
243 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
245 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
246 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
247 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
248 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
249 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
250 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
252 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
253 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
254 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
255 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
256 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
258 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
259 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
260 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
262 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
263 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
264 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
267 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
268 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
270 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
272 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
273 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
274 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
275 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
276 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
277 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
279 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
280 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
281 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
283 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
285 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
286 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
287 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
288 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
289 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
291 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
292 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
294 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
295 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
296 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
298 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
300 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
302 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
303 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
305 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
308 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
310 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
311 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
313 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
315 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
316 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
317 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
319 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
320 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
321 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
322 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
324 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
326 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
327 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
328 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
331 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
332 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
334 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
335 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
336 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
337 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
339 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
341 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
342 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
344 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
346 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
347 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
349 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
352 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
353 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
354 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
356 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
357 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
359 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
361 (No changes in functionality)
363 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
366 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
367 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
369 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
371 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
372 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
374 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
375 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
376 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
379 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
380 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
382 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
384 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
385 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
386 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
387 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
388 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
391 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
392 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
395 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
396 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
398 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
400 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
401 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
403 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
404 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
405 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
407 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
408 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
409 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
411 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
413 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
414 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
416 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
417 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
419 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
420 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
421 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
423 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
424 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
425 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
427 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
428 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
430 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
432 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
433 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
435 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
436 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
437 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
439 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
440 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
442 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
443 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
444 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
446 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
447 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
448 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
449 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
451 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
452 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
453 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
454 with the rest of the stuff.
456 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
457 older perls like 5.005.
459 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
462 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
463 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
465 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
467 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
468 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
470 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
471 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
473 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
475 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
476 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
477 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
478 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
479 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
482 ==================================================================
483 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
484 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
485 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
486 ==================================================================
488 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
490 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
491 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
493 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
494 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
496 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
498 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
499 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
501 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
503 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
504 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
505 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
506 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
507 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
509 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
511 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
512 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
514 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
516 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
517 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
518 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
520 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
522 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
523 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
526 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
527 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
529 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
530 path separator is ':'.
532 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
533 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
534 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
536 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
539 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
541 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
542 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
545 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
547 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
548 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
549 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
551 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
553 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
554 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
555 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
557 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
559 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
560 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
561 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
562 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
564 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
566 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
567 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
569 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
572 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
574 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
575 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
577 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
579 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
580 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
583 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
584 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
586 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
588 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
590 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
591 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
592 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
593 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
595 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
596 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
598 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
601 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
602 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
604 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
607 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
609 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
610 release by Ken Williams.
612 ==================================================================
613 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
614 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
615 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
616 ==================================================================
618 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
620 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
621 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
622 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
624 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
626 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
627 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
629 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
630 path. [Craig A. Berry]
632 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
634 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
635 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
636 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
639 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
640 class. [Alexander Farber]
642 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
644 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
646 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
647 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
649 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
651 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
652 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
654 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
656 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
657 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
658 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
659 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
660 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
662 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
663 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
664 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
666 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
668 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
669 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
670 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
671 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
672 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
673 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
675 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
676 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
677 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
679 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
680 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
681 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
682 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
683 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
684 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
686 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
687 and now it returns '/'.
689 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
691 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
693 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
694 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
696 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
699 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
702 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
703 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
705 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
706 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
709 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
710 tests added for them:
711 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
712 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
713 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
714 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
715 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
716 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
717 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
719 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
720 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
721 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
723 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
725 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
726 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
727 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
730 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
733 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
734 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
735 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
736 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
737 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
738 broken relative path previous versions returned.
740 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
741 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
743 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
745 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
747 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
749 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
750 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
752 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
753 on platforms where it can't run properly.
755 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
757 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
758 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
759 from what I can tell, are listed here.
761 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
762 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
763 done by Thomas Wegner.
765 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
767 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
768 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
770 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
773 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
774 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
776 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
779 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
783 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
785 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
786 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
788 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
789 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
790 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
792 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
795 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
796 on its final argument.
798 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
801 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
802 relativity when no base is given.
804 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
807 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
808 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
810 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
812 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
814 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
815 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
816 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
817 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
818 needing to update the perl repository.
819 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
820 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
821 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
822 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
823 arrives where method prototypes are honored.