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1Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
2
33.62 - Mon Jan 11 08:39:19 EST 2016
4- ensure File::Spec::canonpath() preserves taint (CVE-2015-8607)
5
63.61 - Sun Dec 20 12:00:00 EST 2015 (bleadperl only release)
7- improve performance of cwd on Win32 miniperl
8
93.60 - Wed Nov 18 21:28:01 EST 2015
10- add File::Spec::AmigaOS -- and actually ship it, this time
11
123.59 - Fri Nov 13 18:38:01 EST 2015
13- no changes since 5.58_01
14
153.58_01 - Mon Nov  9 17:35:28 EST 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
16- add File::Spec::AmigaOS
17- fix INSTALLDIRS on post-5.10 perls
18
193.56_02 - Thu Jul 16 11:28:57 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
20- fix $VERSION in loaded modules
21
223.56_01 - Sat Jul 11 18:07:28 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
23- CPAN release of the PathTools included in perl v5.22.0
24- support for z/OS sysplexed systems
25- long-deprecated "fixpath" and "eliminate_macros" VMS functions removed
26- avoid turning leading // into / on cygwin
27- Force barename base to be a directory in File::Spec::VMS:abs2rel
28- Revise Unix syntax detection File::Spec::VMS::abs2rel
29- compiles on Android now
30- fewer compiler warnings
31- eliminate some runtime perl warnings, too
32
333.47 - Fri May 23 18:52:00 2014
34- Improved Android support.
35- File::Spec::Unix->tmpdir: Always return an absolute path
36- File::Spec now has an XS version for performance.
37- QNX and VMS portability
38- tmpdir is updated when the environment changes.
39
403.40 - Wed Jan 16 07:30:00 2013
41- Stop inadvertently skipping Spec.t on VMS. (Craig Berry)
42- Rethink EFS in File::Spec::VMS. (Craig Berry)
43- File::Spec::UNIX->abs2rel() gets it wrong with ".." components
44  [perl #111510] (Volker Schatz)
45- Add C define to remove taint support from perl (Steffen Mueller)
46- Remove "register" declarations as they are no longer
47  useful (Karl Williamson)
48- Add test for fast_abs_path in LF dir
49  [perl #115962] (Father Chrysostomos)
50- Cwd::fast_abs_path's untaint should allow for multiline
51  directories (Joel Berger)
52
533.39_01 - Tue Dec 20 08:30:00 2011
54- [perl #51562] Problem & "solution" for building 5.10.0 with
55  win32+mingw+dmake (kmx)
56- Fix various compiler warnings from XS code (Zefram)
57- Fix typos (spelling errors) (Peter J. Acklam)
58- Remove Mac OS classic only tests from Cwd's Spec.t
59  and special case code from Cwd's cwd.t (Nicholas Clark)
60- Convert File::Spec's remaining tests to Test::More from Test
61  (Nicholas Clark)
62- dist/Cwd/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm: Fix broken link (Karl Williamson)
63- In Cwd::_win32_cwd() avoid a string eval when checking if we're
64  miniperl (Nicholas Clark)
65- Add PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to Cwd (Nicholas Clark)
66- In Cwd.xs on VMS, don't compile bsd_realpath() at all (Nicholas Clark)
67- Merge the implementation of Cwd::{fastcwd,getcwd} using
68  ALIAS (Nicholas Clark)
69- In Cwd.xs, swap to defaulting to disabled prototypes (Nicholas Clark)
70- Remove duplicate $VERSION handling code, made redundant
71  in 3.28_01 (Nicholas Clark)
72- In Cwd.xs, tidy the conditional code related to symlinks
73  (Nicholas Clark)
74- Keep verbatim pod within 80 cols (Father Chrysostomos)
75- [RT #36079] Convert ` to ' in docs (Jim Keenan)
76- [rt.cpan.org #45885] File::Spec: Don’t use tainted tmpdir
77  in 5.6 (Father Chrysostomos)
78
793.33 - Mon Sep 20 18:00:00 2010
80- No functional changes since the previous release.
81- Fixes POD links
82  (part of core change2a6dc37471bea77f0c24fd1fe90c598a270c9968,
83   Florian Ragwitz)
84
853.32 - Sun Sep 19 18:00:00 2010
86
87- Promote to stable release.
88
893.31_03 - Fri Sep 17 20:00:00 2010
90
91- Colon delimiter and escaped delimiters for File::Spec::VMS
92  This is core change 61196b433b2b (Craig A. Berry)
93
943.31_02 - Fri Jul 23 20:00:00 2010
95
96- Add TODO test for File::Spec->rel2abs() when under a symlink.
97- Make catpath return an empty directory rather than the current
98  directory if the directory name is empty.  This allows catpath
99  to play nice with non-rooted logical names, as in
100        catpath('sys$login:', '', 'login.com');
101  (Craig A. Berry)
102- Fix abs2rel bug in handling a Unix-style input.
103  (Craig A. Berry)
104- Assorted clarification and simplification of the documentation.
105  (Craig A. Berry)
106
1073.31 - Sun Nov  1 15:15:00 2009
108
109- Do not pack a Build.PL to avoid a circular dependency involving
110  ExtUtils::CBuilder (PathTools RT #50749)
111
1123.30_02 - Tue Sep 29 08:17:00 2009
113
114- Remove more special logic required for core perl.
115
1163.30_01 - Mon Sep 21 14:39:00 2009
117
118- Merge changes from core perl.
119  (Mostly changes regarding the lib->ext migration)
120
1213.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009
122
123- Promote to stable release.
124
1253.29_01 - Thu May  7 20:22:00 2009
126
127- Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
128
129- Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
130  extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
131
132- VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
133  (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
134
1353.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
136
137- Promote to stable release.
138
1393.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
140
141- In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
142  otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
143
1443.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
145
146 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
147   slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
148
1493.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
150
151 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
152   argument on VMS.  [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
153
154 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
155
156 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
157   explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
158   because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
159   #33675]
160
161 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
162   minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
163
1643.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
165
166 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
167   'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
168   what catpath() is for) that changed between versions.  Now we're
169   back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
170   [Audrey Tang]
171
1723.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
173
174 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
175   we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
176   Peters]
177
178 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
179
1803.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
181
182 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
183   Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
184   5.10.  It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
185   before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
186
187 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
188   version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
189
1903.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
191
192 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
193   VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
194
195 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
196
197 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
198   argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
199   because this fact can vary on different volumes.
200
201 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
202   get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
203   was more appropriate.
204
205 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
206
207 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
208
209 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
210   and splitdir().
211
2123.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
213
214 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
215   and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
216
217 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
218   volume under scrutiny.  When Win32API::File is available, it will
219   be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
220   (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
221   Urban]
222
223 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
224   possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
225
226 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
227
228 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
229   return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
230
231 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
232   empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
233   [Craig A. Berry]
234
235 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
236   hodgepodge of various numbers.
237
2383.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
239
240 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
241   (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
242
243 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
244   functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
245
246 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
247   avoid using it when in the core.
248
2493.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
250
251 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
252   dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
253
254 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
255   Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
256
257 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
258
259 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
260   OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
261
2623.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
263
264 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
265   waterbed...).  This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
266   what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
267   path, like C:foo.txt .  This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
268   too.
269
2703.22 - Mon Oct  9 21:50:52 2006
271
272 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
273   volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
274   letter. [Reported by several parties]
275
2763.21 - Wed Oct  4 21:16:43 2006
277
278 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
279   podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
280
281 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
282   '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
283   the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
284   path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'.  This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
285   Ciornii]
286
287 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
288   given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
289   Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
290   input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
291   fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
292
2933.19  Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
294
295 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
296   (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
297   needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
298   absolute paths.  Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
299   making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
300   repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
301
302 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
303   when on Windows.  This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
304   to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
305   don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
306
307 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
308   returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
309   Heinrich Tegethoff]
310
3113.18  Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
312
313 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
314   treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
315
316 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
317   '/') works as expected.  [Chia-liang Kao]
318
319 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
320   'foo/bar') works as expected.  [Mark Grimes]
321
3223.17  Fri Mar  3 16:52:30 CST 2006
323
324 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
325   (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd).  Since
326   that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
327   subroutine that ignores its arguments.  We could skip this wrapping
328   if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
329   when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
330
3313.16  Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
332
333 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
334   compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
335
336 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
337   methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
338   Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
339
340 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
341   (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
342   as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
343   We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
344   "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
345   by Eamon Daly and others]
346
3473.15  Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
348
349 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
350   the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible.  This is
351   safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
352   abs_path('.').  The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
353   which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
354   miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
355
356 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
357   after we find the first one rather than continuing the search.  We
358   also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
359   found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
360   /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
361
362 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
363   root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir).  This has been
364   fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
365
366 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
367   that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
368   '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
369   E. Malmberg]
370
371 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
372   just returning '[]'.  Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
373
3743.14  Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
375
376 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
377   //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
378   that means something special.  It used to check the value of $^O
379   rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
380   calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
381   unless you were actually *on* cygwin.  Now it does.
382
383 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
384   create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
385   shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
386
3873.13  Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
388
389 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
390   some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
391   they didn't exist already.  This is probably a bug in perl itself
392   (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
393   around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
394
395 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
396   needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
397
398 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
399   were identical, which made no sense.  Now it returns
400   curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
401
402 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
403
4043.12  Mon Oct  3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
405
406 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
407   directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
408
409 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
410   Win32. [Gisle Aas]
411
4123.11  Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
413
414 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
415   File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
416
4173.10  Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
418
419 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
420   deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
421   MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
422
423 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
424   correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
425   doing.  Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
426   sections, as doing so would be incorrect.  [Michael Schwern]
427
4283.09  Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
429
430 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
431   function, which were necessary to separate the variable
432   declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
433   defined. [Yves]
434
435 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
436   thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
437
438 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
439   sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
440   5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken.  This is now
441   fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
442
4433.08  Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
444
445 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
446   sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
447
4483.07  Fri May  6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
449
450 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
451   tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
452
453 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32.  Now it returns \ .
454   [Michael Schwern]
455
456 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
457   necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
458   boost. [Richard Soderberg]
459
460 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
461   (or works better) on Symbian OS phones.  [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
462
4633.06  Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
464
465 (No changes in functionality)
466
467 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
468   foo/../bar sections.
469
470 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
471   normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
472
4733.05  Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
474
475 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
476   backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
477
478 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
479   (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
480   process).  This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
481   Garcia-Suarez]
482
483 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
484   testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
485
4863.04  Sun Feb  6 17:27:38 CST 2005
487
488 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
489   because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
490   was built.  We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
491   function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
492   Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
493   several parties]
494
495 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
496   doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
497   file. [Jerry Hedden]
498
499 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
500   read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
501
5023.03  Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
503
504 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
505   directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
506
507 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
508   testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
509   and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
510
511 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
512   pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
513   to push it.  Let 'em use `cwd`.
514
5153.02  Sun Jan  9 19:29:52 CST 2005
516
517 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
518   directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
519
520 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
521   module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
522
523 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
524   abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
525   grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
526
527 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
528   (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
529   loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
530
531 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
532   require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
533
534 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
535
536 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
537   older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
538
539 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
540   won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
541   disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
542
543 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
544   syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
545
546 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
547   lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution.  They're
548   restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
549
550 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
551   down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
552   This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
553   parser. [Craig A. Berry]
554
555 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
556   -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
557   the distribution.  It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
558   with the rest of the stuff.
559
560 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
561   older perls like 5.005.
562
563 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
564   by Neil MacMullen]
565
566 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
567   file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
568
5693.01  Mon Sep  6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
570
571 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
572   the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
573
574 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
575   even begin to work. [Reported by many]
576
5773.00  Thu Sep  2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
578
579 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
580   This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
581   extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
582   distribution was deemed nigh-impossible.  The code in revision 3.00
583   of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
584   File::Spec 0.90.
585
586==================================================================
587Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
588separate distributions.  The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
589The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
590==================================================================
591
592Cwd 2.21  Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
593
594 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
595   distribution with MakeMaker anyway.  [Rohan Carly]
596
597 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
598   (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
599
600Cwd 2.20  Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
601
602 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
603   occurred when calling getdcwd().  This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
604
605 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
606
607 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
608   that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
609   To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
610   otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
611   or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
612
613Cwd 2.19  Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
614
615 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
616   fixed there. [Craig Berry]
617
618Cwd 2.18  Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
619
620 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
621   only be called on directories, and died when called on files.  This
622   was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
623
624 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
625
626 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
627   current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
628   [Steve Hay]
629
630 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
631   compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
632
633 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
634   path separator is ':'.
635
636 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
637   don't look for a `pwd` command externally.  This can greatly speed
638   up load time.  [Stefan Scherer]
639
640 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
641   the XS version (;$).
642
643Cwd 2.17  Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
644
645 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
646   within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
647   /private/tmp).
648
649Cwd 2.16  Sat Mar  6 17:56:31 CST 2004
650
651 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
652   interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
653   to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
654
655Cwd 2.15  Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
656
657 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
658   Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
659   blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
660
661Cwd 2.14  Thu Jan  8 18:51:08 CST 2004
662
663 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
664   expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests.  This
665   fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms.  No
666   changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
667
668Cwd 2.13  Fri Jan  2 22:29:42 CST 2004
669
670 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
671   it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
672
673 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
674   people]
675
676Cwd 2.12  Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
677
678 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
679   tainted, but wasn't.  [Reported by Tom Wyant]
680
681Cwd 2.10  Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
682
683 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
684 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10.  Not sure how
685 THAT happened...)
686
687 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
688   isn't necessary.  I've removed it.
689
690Cwd 2.09  Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
691
692 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
693
694 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
695   Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
696   lib/-based file layout.  No version of Module::Build is required if
697   you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
698
699 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
700   of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
701
702 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
703   carp()/croak().
704
705 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
706   Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
707
708 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
709   tests. [Sam Vilain]
710
711Cwd 2.08  Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
712
713  - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
714    release by Ken Williams.
715
716==================================================================
717Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
718separate distributions.  The revision history for File::Spec is shown
719here.  The revision history for Cwd is above.
720==================================================================
721
722File::Spec 0.90  Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
723
724 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
725   rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
726   paths containing slashes.  [Craig A. Berry]
727
728File::Spec 0.89  Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
729
730 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
731   splitdir().  [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
732
733 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
734   path. [Craig A. Berry]
735
736File::Spec 0.88  Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
737
738 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
739   that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
740   current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
741   [Steve Hay]
742
743 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
744   class. [Alexander Farber]
745
746 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
747
748File::Spec 0.87  Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
749
750 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
751   [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
752
753File::Spec 0.86  Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
754
755 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1.  It is identical to
756   the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
757
758File::Spec 0.85_03  Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
759
760 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
761   two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
762   only.  Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
763   included both volumes.  This change is the same in spirit to the
764   catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
765
766 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
767   abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
768   properly returns '[.t3]file'.
769
770File::Spec 0.85_02  Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
771
772 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
773   notion of a volume.  If the volumes of the first and second
774   argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
775   not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
776   argument.  Previously the volume of the second argument was
777   (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
778
779 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
780   in its first argument, and then its second argument.  The first
781   volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
782
783 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
784   current working directory would get added to the second argument if
785   none was specified.  This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
786   was contrary to the documented behavior.  For example,
787   abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
788   'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
789
790 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
791   and now it returns '/'.
792
793File::Spec 0.85_01  Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
794
795 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
796
797 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
798   its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
799
800 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
801   Schwern, Tels]
802
803 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
804   [Michael Schwern]
805
806 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
807   never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
808
809 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
810   strings have been sped up.  catdir() has also been sped up there.
811   [Tels]
812
813 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
814   tests added for them:
815      catdir('/', '../')   -> '\\'     (was '\..')
816      catdir('/', '..\\')  -> '\\      (was '')
817      canonpath('\\../')   -> '\\'     (was '')
818      canonpath('\\..\\')  -> '\\'     (was '')
819      canonpath('/../')    -> '\\'     (was '\..')
820      canonpath('/..\\')   -> '\\'     (was '')
821      catdir('\\', 'foo')  -> '\foo'   (was '\\foo')
822
823 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
824   that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
825   catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
826
827File::Spec 0.85  Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
828
829 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84.  I've forked development into a
830 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
831 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
832 5.8.1.
833
834 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
835   returned 1.
836
837 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
838   the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored.  Unfortunately, part
839   of the regression tests were broken too.  Now, if the $path
840   argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
841   argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
842   broken relative path previous versions returned.
843
844 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
845   \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
846
847 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
848
849File::Spec 0.84_01  Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
850
851 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
852
853 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
854   Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
855
856 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
857   on platforms where it can't run properly.
858
859File::Spec 0.84  Wed Jul  9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
860
861 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
862 from them, since they're pretty important changes.  The highlights,
863 from what I can tell, are listed here.
864
865 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
866   line with the other platforms.  This work was mostly/completely
867   done by Thomas Wegner.
868
869 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
870
871 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
872   File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
873
874 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
875   Module::Build.
876
877 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
878   eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
879
880 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
881   beginning of a path.
882
883 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
884
885 - Various POD fixups
886
887 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
888
889 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
890   implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
891
892 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
893   splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
894   than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
895
896 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
897   on Win32.
898
899 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
900   on its final argument.
901
902 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
903   path.
904
905 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
906   relativity when no base is given.
907
908 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
909   the $path argument.
910
911 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
912   It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
913
914 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
915
916 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
917
918File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
919   - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
920   - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
921     underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
922     needing to update the perl repository.
923   - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
924   - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
925   - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
926   - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
927     arrives where method prototypes are honored.
928