1 Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
3 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
4 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
6 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
8 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
9 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
10 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
13 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
14 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
16 3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
18 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
19 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
20 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're
21 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
24 3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
26 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
27 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
30 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
32 3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
34 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
35 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
36 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
37 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
39 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
40 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
42 3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
44 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
45 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
47 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
49 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
50 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
51 because this fact can vary on different volumes.
53 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
54 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
57 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
59 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
61 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
64 3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
66 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
67 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
69 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
70 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will
71 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
72 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
75 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
76 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
78 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
80 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
81 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
83 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
84 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
87 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
88 hodgepodge of various numbers.
90 3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
92 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
93 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
95 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
96 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
98 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
99 avoid using it when in the core.
101 3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
103 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
104 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
106 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
107 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
109 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
111 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
112 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
114 3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
116 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
117 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
118 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
119 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
122 3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006
124 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
125 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
126 letter. [Reported by several parties]
128 3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006
130 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
131 podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
133 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
134 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
135 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
136 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
139 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
140 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
141 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
142 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
143 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
145 3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
147 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
148 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
149 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
150 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
151 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
152 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
154 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
155 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
156 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
157 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
159 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
160 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
163 3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
165 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
166 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
168 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
169 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
171 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
172 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]
174 3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006
176 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
177 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since
178 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
179 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping
180 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
181 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
183 3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
185 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
186 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
188 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
189 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
190 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
192 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
193 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
194 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
195 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
196 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
197 by Eamon Daly and others]
199 3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
201 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
202 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is
203 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
204 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
205 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
206 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
208 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
209 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We
210 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
211 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
212 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
214 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
215 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been
216 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
218 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
219 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
220 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
223 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
224 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
226 3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
228 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
229 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
230 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O
231 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
232 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
233 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does.
235 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
236 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
237 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
239 3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
241 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
242 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
243 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself
244 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
245 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
247 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
248 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
250 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
251 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns
252 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
254 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
256 3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
258 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
259 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
261 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
264 3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
266 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
267 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
269 3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
271 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
272 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
273 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
275 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
276 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
277 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
278 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]
280 3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
282 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
283 function, which were necessary to separate the variable
284 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
287 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
288 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
290 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
291 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
292 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now
293 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
295 3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
297 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
298 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
300 3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
302 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
303 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
305 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ .
308 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
309 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
310 boost. [Richard Soderberg]
312 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
313 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
315 3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
317 (No changes in functionality)
319 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
322 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
323 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
325 3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
327 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
328 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
330 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
331 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
332 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
335 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
336 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
338 3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005
340 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
341 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
342 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
343 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
344 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
347 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
348 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
351 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
352 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
354 3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
356 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
357 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
359 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
360 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
361 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
363 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
364 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
365 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.
367 3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005
369 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
370 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
372 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
373 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
375 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
376 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
377 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
379 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
380 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
381 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
383 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
384 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
386 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
388 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
389 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
391 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
392 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
393 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
395 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
396 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
398 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
399 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're
400 restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
402 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
403 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
404 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
405 parser. [Craig A. Berry]
407 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
408 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
409 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
410 with the rest of the stuff.
412 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
413 older perls like 5.005.
415 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
418 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
419 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
421 3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
423 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
424 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
426 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
427 even begin to work. [Reported by many]
429 3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
431 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
432 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
433 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
434 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00
435 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
438 ==================================================================
439 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
440 separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
441 The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
442 ==================================================================
444 Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
446 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
447 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
449 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
450 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
452 Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
454 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
455 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
457 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
459 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
460 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
461 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
462 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
463 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
465 Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
467 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
468 fixed there. [Craig Berry]
470 Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
472 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
473 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This
474 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
476 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
478 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
479 current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
482 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
483 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
485 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
486 path separator is ':'.
488 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
489 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed
490 up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
492 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
495 Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
497 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
498 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
501 Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004
503 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
504 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
505 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
507 Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
509 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
510 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
511 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
513 Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004
515 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
516 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This
517 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No
518 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
520 Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004
522 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
523 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
525 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
528 Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
530 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
531 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]
533 Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
535 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
536 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how
539 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
540 isn't necessary. I've removed it.
542 Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
544 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
546 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
547 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
548 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if
549 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
551 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
552 of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
554 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
557 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
558 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
560 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
563 Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
565 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
566 release by Ken Williams.
568 ==================================================================
569 Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
570 separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown
571 here. The revision history for Cwd is above.
572 ==================================================================
574 File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
576 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
577 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
578 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]
580 File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
582 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
583 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
585 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
586 path. [Craig A. Berry]
588 File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
590 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
591 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
592 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
595 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
596 class. [Alexander Farber]
598 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
600 File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
602 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
603 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
605 File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
607 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to
608 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
610 File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
612 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
613 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
614 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
615 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the
616 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
618 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
619 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
620 properly returns '[.t3]file'.
622 File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
624 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
625 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second
626 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
627 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
628 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was
629 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
631 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
632 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first
633 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
635 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
636 current working directory would get added to the second argument if
637 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
638 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example,
639 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
640 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
642 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
643 and now it returns '/'.
645 File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
647 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
649 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
650 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
652 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
655 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
658 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
659 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
661 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
662 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there.
665 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
666 tests added for them:
667 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
668 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '')
669 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '')
670 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
671 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..')
672 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '')
673 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')
675 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
676 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
677 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
679 File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
681 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a
682 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
683 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
686 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
689 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
690 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part
691 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path
692 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
693 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
694 broken relative path previous versions returned.
696 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
697 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
699 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
701 File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
703 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
705 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
706 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
708 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
709 on platforms where it can't run properly.
711 File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
713 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
714 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights,
715 from what I can tell, are listed here.
717 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
718 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely
719 done by Thomas Wegner.
721 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
723 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
724 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
726 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
729 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
730 eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
732 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
735 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
739 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
741 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
742 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
744 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
745 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
746 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
748 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
751 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
752 on its final argument.
754 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
757 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
758 relativity when no base is given.
760 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
763 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
764 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
766 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
768 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
770 File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
771 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
772 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
773 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
774 needing to update the perl repository.
775 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
776 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
777 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
778 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
779 arrives where method prototypes are honored.