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1Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
2
33.75
4- Fix t/abs2rel.t on 5.8.8 by changing mkpath call to be
5  compatible with older File::Path
6
73.74
8- No changes.
9
103.73
11- Define NEED_croak_xs_usage, fixing usage of croak_xs_usage()
12- [perl #132853] Add metadata (ABSTRACT, LICENSE, AUTHOR)
13- [perl #132733] Skip cwd_enoent test on Cygwin
14- [perl #132651] Avoid infinite recursion in _perl_abs_path()
15- [rt.cpan.org #114236] Compatibility with File::Path 2.06_04
16
173.72
18- [perl #132648] Correct error returns from fast_abs_path()
19
203.71
21- [perl #130818] Remove support for running PathTools on MacOS
22  and EPOC
23
243.70
25- Change strcmp into the easier to read strEQ
26
273.69
28- avoid loading modules repeatedly at runtime
29- replace 'use vars' by 'our'
30- Switch to XSLoader from Dynaloader
31
323.68
33- avoid warning from pre-5.8 code for detecting tainted values
34- make taint.t detect that a pre-5.8 Perl supports tainting
35- avoid a dynamic linking problem on Perl 5.6
36
373.67 - Mon Feb 27 09:33:04 EST 2017
38- Add security usage note to File::Spec::no_upwards
39
403.66 - Sat Nov 19 10:30:19 MST 2016
41- white space change so can compile under C++11
42
433.65 - Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:15:33 -0700
44- (perl #127384)(CVE-2016-1238)
45
463.64 - Tue May 24 10:00:19 MST 2016
47- just minor pod changes to silence Pod::Checker
48
493.62 - Mon Jan 11 08:39:19 EST 2016
50- ensure File::Spec::canonpath() preserves taint (CVE-2015-8607)
51
523.61 - Sun Dec 20 12:00:00 EST 2015 (bleadperl only release)
53- improve performance of cwd on Win32 miniperl
54
553.60 - Wed Nov 18 21:28:01 EST 2015
56- add File::Spec::AmigaOS -- and actually ship it, this time
57
583.59 - Fri Nov 13 18:38:01 EST 2015
59- no changes since 5.58_01
60
613.58_01 - Mon Nov  9 17:35:28 EST 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
62- add File::Spec::AmigaOS
63- fix INSTALLDIRS on post-5.10 perls
64
653.56_02 - Thu Jul 16 11:28:57 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
66- fix $VERSION in loaded modules
67
683.56_01 - Sat Jul 11 18:07:28 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
69- CPAN release of the PathTools included in perl v5.22.0
70- support for z/OS sysplexed systems
71- long-deprecated "fixpath" and "eliminate_macros" VMS functions removed
72- avoid turning leading // into / on cygwin
73- Force barename base to be a directory in File::Spec::VMS:abs2rel
74- Revise Unix syntax detection File::Spec::VMS::abs2rel
75- compiles on Android now
76- fewer compiler warnings
77- eliminate some runtime perl warnings, too
78
793.47 - Fri May 23 18:52:00 2014
80- Improved Android support.
81- File::Spec::Unix->tmpdir: Always return an absolute path
82- File::Spec now has an XS version for performance.
83- QNX and VMS portability
84- tmpdir is updated when the environment changes.
85
863.40 - Wed Jan 16 07:30:00 2013
87- Stop inadvertently skipping Spec.t on VMS. (Craig Berry)
88- Rethink EFS in File::Spec::VMS. (Craig Berry)
89- File::Spec::UNIX->abs2rel() gets it wrong with ".." components
90  [perl #111510] (Volker Schatz)
91- Add C define to remove taint support from perl (Steffen Mueller)
92- Remove "register" declarations as they are no longer
93  useful (Karl Williamson)
94- Add test for fast_abs_path in LF dir
95  [perl #115962] (Father Chrysostomos)
96- Cwd::fast_abs_path's untaint should allow for multiline
97  directories (Joel Berger)
98
993.39_01 - Tue Dec 20 08:30:00 2011
100- [perl #51562] Problem & "solution" for building 5.10.0 with
101  win32+mingw+dmake (kmx)
102- Fix various compiler warnings from XS code (Zefram)
103- Fix typos (spelling errors) (Peter J. Acklam)
104- Remove Mac OS classic only tests from Cwd's Spec.t
105  and special case code from Cwd's cwd.t (Nicholas Clark)
106- Convert File::Spec's remaining tests to Test::More from Test
107  (Nicholas Clark)
108- dist/Cwd/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm: Fix broken link (Karl Williamson)
109- In Cwd::_win32_cwd() avoid a string eval when checking if we're
110  miniperl (Nicholas Clark)
111- Add PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to Cwd (Nicholas Clark)
112- In Cwd.xs on VMS, don't compile bsd_realpath() at all (Nicholas Clark)
113- Merge the implementation of Cwd::{fastcwd,getcwd} using
114  ALIAS (Nicholas Clark)
115- In Cwd.xs, swap to defaulting to disabled prototypes (Nicholas Clark)
116- Remove duplicate $VERSION handling code, made redundant
117  in 3.28_01 (Nicholas Clark)
118- In Cwd.xs, tidy the conditional code related to symlinks
119  (Nicholas Clark)
120- Keep verbatim pod within 80 cols (Father Chrysostomos)
121- [RT #36079] Convert ` to ' in docs (Jim Keenan)
122- [rt.cpan.org #45885] File::Spec: Don’t use tainted tmpdir
123  in 5.6 (Father Chrysostomos)
124
1253.33 - Mon Sep 20 18:00:00 2010
126- No functional changes since the previous release.
127- Fixes POD links
128  (part of core change2a6dc37471bea77f0c24fd1fe90c598a270c9968,
129   Florian Ragwitz)
130
1313.32 - Sun Sep 19 18:00:00 2010
132
133- Promote to stable release.
134
1353.31_03 - Fri Sep 17 20:00:00 2010
136
137- Colon delimiter and escaped delimiters for File::Spec::VMS
138  This is core change 61196b433b2b (Craig A. Berry)
139
1403.31_02 - Fri Jul 23 20:00:00 2010
141
142- Add TODO test for File::Spec->rel2abs() when under a symlink.
143- Make catpath return an empty directory rather than the current
144  directory if the directory name is empty.  This allows catpath
145  to play nice with non-rooted logical names, as in
146        catpath('sys$login:', '', 'login.com');
147  (Craig A. Berry)
148- Fix abs2rel bug in handling a Unix-style input.
149  (Craig A. Berry)
150- Assorted clarification and simplification of the documentation.
151  (Craig A. Berry)
152
1533.31 - Sun Nov  1 15:15:00 2009
154
155- Do not pack a Build.PL to avoid a circular dependency involving
156  ExtUtils::CBuilder (PathTools RT #50749)
157
1583.30_02 - Tue Sep 29 08:17:00 2009
159
160- Remove more special logic required for core perl.
161
1623.30_01 - Mon Sep 21 14:39:00 2009
163
164- Merge changes from core perl.
165  (Mostly changes regarding the lib->ext migration)
166
1673.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009
168
169- Promote to stable release.
170
1713.29_01 - Thu May  7 20:22:00 2009
172
173- Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
174
175- Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
176  extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
177
178- VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
179  (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
180
1813.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
182
183- Promote to stable release.
184
1853.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
186
187- In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
188  otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
189
1903.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
191
192 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
193   slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
194
1953.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
196
197 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
198   argument on VMS.  [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
199
200 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
201
202 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
203   explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
204   because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
205   #33675]
206
207 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
208   minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
209
2103.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
211
212 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
213   'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
214   what catpath() is for) that changed between versions.  Now we're
215   back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
216   [Audrey Tang]
217
2183.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
219
220 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
221   we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
222   Peters]
223
224 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
225
2263.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
227
228 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
229   Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
230   5.10.  It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
231   before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
232
233 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
234   version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
235
2363.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
237
238 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
239   VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
240
241 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
242
243 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
244   argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
245   because this fact can vary on different volumes.
246
247 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
248   get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
249   was more appropriate.
250
251 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
252
253 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
254
255 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
256   and splitdir().
257
2583.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
259
260 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
261   and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
262
263 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
264   volume under scrutiny.  When Win32API::File is available, it will
265   be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
266   (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
267   Urban]
268
269 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
270   possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
271
272 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
273
274 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
275   return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
276
277 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
278   empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
279   [Craig A. Berry]
280
281 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
282   hodgepodge of various numbers.
283
2843.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
285
286 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
287   (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
288
289 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
290   functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
291
292 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
293   avoid using it when in the core.
294
2953.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
296
297 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
298   dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
299
300 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
301   Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
302
303 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
304
305 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
306   OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
307
3083.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
309
310 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
311   waterbed...).  This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
312   what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
313   path, like C:foo.txt .  This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
314   too.
315
3163.22 - Mon Oct  9 21:50:52 2006
317
318 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
319   volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
320   letter. [Reported by several parties]
321
3223.21 - Wed Oct  4 21:16:43 2006
323
324 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
325   podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
326
327 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
328   '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
329   the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
330   path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'.  This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
331   Ciornii]
332
333 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
334   given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
335   Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
336   input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
337   fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
338
3393.19  Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
340
341 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
342   (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
343   needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
344   absolute paths.  Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
345   making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
346   repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
347
348 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
349   when on Windows.  This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
350   to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
351   don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
352
353 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
354   returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
355   Heinrich Tegethoff]
356
3573.18  Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
358
359 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
360   treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
361
362 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
363   '/') works as expected.  [Chia-liang Kao]
364
365 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
366   'foo/bar') works as expected.  [Mark Grimes]
367
3683.17  Fri Mar  3 16:52:30 CST 2006
369
370 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
371   (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd).  Since
372   that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
373   subroutine that ignores its arguments.  We could skip this wrapping
374   if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
375   when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
376
3773.16  Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
378
379 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
380   compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
381
382 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
383   methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
384   Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
385
386 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
387   (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
388   as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
389   We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
390   "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
391   by Eamon Daly and others]
392
3933.15  Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
394
395 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
396   the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible.  This is
397   safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
398   abs_path('.').  The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
399   which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
400   miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
401
402 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
403   after we find the first one rather than continuing the search.  We
404   also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
405   found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
406   /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
407
408 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
409   root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir).  This has been
410   fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
411
412 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
413   that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
414   '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
415   E. Malmberg]
416
417 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
418   just returning '[]'.  Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
419
4203.14  Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
421
422 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
423   //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
424   that means something special.  It used to check the value of $^O
425   rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
426   calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
427   unless you were actually *on* cygwin.  Now it does.
428
429 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
430   create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
431   shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
432
4333.13  Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
434
435 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
436   some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
437   they didn't exist already.  This is probably a bug in perl itself
438   (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
439   around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
440
441 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
442   needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
443
444 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
445   were identical, which made no sense.  Now it returns
446   curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
447
448 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
449
4503.12  Mon Oct  3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
451
452 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
453   directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
454
455 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
456   Win32. [Gisle Aas]
457
4583.11  Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
459
460 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
461   File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
462
4633.10  Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
464
465 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
466   deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
467   MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
468
469 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
470   correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
471   doing.  Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
472   sections, as doing so would be incorrect.  [Michael Schwern]
473
4743.09  Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
475
476 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
477   function, which were necessary to separate the variable
478   declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
479   defined. [Yves]
480
481 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
482   thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
483
484 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
485   sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
486   5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken.  This is now
487   fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
488
4893.08  Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
490
491 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
492   sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
493
4943.07  Fri May  6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
495
496 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
497   tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
498
499 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32.  Now it returns \ .
500   [Michael Schwern]
501
502 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
503   necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
504   boost. [Richard Soderberg]
505
506 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
507   (or works better) on Symbian OS phones.  [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
508
5093.06  Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
510
511 (No changes in functionality)
512
513 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
514   foo/../bar sections.
515
516 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
517   normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
518
5193.05  Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
520
521 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
522   backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
523
524 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
525   (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
526   process).  This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
527   Garcia-Suarez]
528
529 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
530   testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
531
5323.04  Sun Feb  6 17:27:38 CST 2005
533
534 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
535   because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
536   was built.  We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
537   function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
538   Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
539   several parties]
540
541 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
542   doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
543   file. [Jerry Hedden]
544
545 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
546   read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
547
5483.03  Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
549
550 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
551   directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
552
553 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
554   testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
555   and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
556
557 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
558   pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
559   to push it.  Let 'em use `cwd`.
560
5613.02  Sun Jan  9 19:29:52 CST 2005
562
563 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
564   directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
565
566 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
567   module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
568
569 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
570   abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
571   grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
572
573 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
574   (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
575   loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
576
577 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
578   require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
579
580 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
581
582 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
583   older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
584
585 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
586   won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
587   disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
588
589 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
590   syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
591
592 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
593   lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution.  They're
594   restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
595
596 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
597   down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
598   This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
599   parser. [Craig A. Berry]
600
601 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
602   -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
603   the distribution.  It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
604   with the rest of the stuff.
605
606 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
607   older perls like 5.005.
608
609 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
610   by Neil MacMullen]
611
612 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
613   file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
614
6153.01  Mon Sep  6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
616
617 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
618   the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
619
620 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
621   even begin to work. [Reported by many]
622
6233.00  Thu Sep  2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
624
625 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
626   This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
627   extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
628   distribution was deemed nigh-impossible.  The code in revision 3.00
629   of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
630   File::Spec 0.90.
631
632==================================================================
633Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
634separate distributions.  The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
635The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
636==================================================================
637
638Cwd 2.21  Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
639
640 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
641   distribution with MakeMaker anyway.  [Rohan Carly]
642
643 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
644   (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
645
646Cwd 2.20  Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
647
648 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
649   occurred when calling getdcwd().  This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
650
651 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
652
653 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
654   that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
655   To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
656   otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
657   or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
658
659Cwd 2.19  Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
660
661 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
662   fixed there. [Craig Berry]
663
664Cwd 2.18  Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
665
666 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
667   only be called on directories, and died when called on files.  This
668   was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
669
670 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
671
672 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
673   current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
674   [Steve Hay]
675
676 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
677   compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
678
679 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
680   path separator is ':'.
681
682 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
683   don't look for a `pwd` command externally.  This can greatly speed
684   up load time.  [Stefan Scherer]
685
686 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
687   the XS version (;$).
688
689Cwd 2.17  Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
690
691 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
692   within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
693   /private/tmp).
694
695Cwd 2.16  Sat Mar  6 17:56:31 CST 2004
696
697 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
698   interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
699   to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
700
701Cwd 2.15  Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
702
703 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
704   Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
705   blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
706
707Cwd 2.14  Thu Jan  8 18:51:08 CST 2004
708
709 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
710   expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests.  This
711   fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms.  No
712   changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
713
714Cwd 2.13  Fri Jan  2 22:29:42 CST 2004
715
716 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
717   it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
718
719 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
720   people]
721
722Cwd 2.12  Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
723
724 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
725   tainted, but wasn't.  [Reported by Tom Wyant]
726
727Cwd 2.10  Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
728
729 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
730 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10.  Not sure how
731 THAT happened...)
732
733 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
734   isn't necessary.  I've removed it.
735
736Cwd 2.09  Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
737
738 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
739
740 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
741   Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
742   lib/-based file layout.  No version of Module::Build is required if
743   you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
744
745 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
746   of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
747
748 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
749   carp()/croak().
750
751 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
752   Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
753
754 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
755   tests. [Sam Vilain]
756
757Cwd 2.08  Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
758
759  - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
760    release by Ken Williams.
761
762==================================================================
763Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
764separate distributions.  The revision history for File::Spec is shown
765here.  The revision history for Cwd is above.
766==================================================================
767
768File::Spec 0.90  Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
769
770 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
771   rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
772   paths containing slashes.  [Craig A. Berry]
773
774File::Spec 0.89  Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
775
776 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
777   splitdir().  [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
778
779 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
780   path. [Craig A. Berry]
781
782File::Spec 0.88  Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
783
784 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
785   that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
786   current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
787   [Steve Hay]
788
789 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
790   class. [Alexander Farber]
791
792 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
793
794File::Spec 0.87  Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
795
796 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
797   [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
798
799File::Spec 0.86  Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
800
801 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1.  It is identical to
802   the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
803
804File::Spec 0.85_03  Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
805
806 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
807   two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
808   only.  Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
809   included both volumes.  This change is the same in spirit to the
810   catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
811
812 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
813   abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
814   properly returns '[.t3]file'.
815
816File::Spec 0.85_02  Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
817
818 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
819   notion of a volume.  If the volumes of the first and second
820   argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
821   not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
822   argument.  Previously the volume of the second argument was
823   (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
824
825 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
826   in its first argument, and then its second argument.  The first
827   volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
828
829 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
830   current working directory would get added to the second argument if
831   none was specified.  This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
832   was contrary to the documented behavior.  For example,
833   abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
834   'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
835
836 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
837   and now it returns '/'.
838
839File::Spec 0.85_01  Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
840
841 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
842
843 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
844   its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
845
846 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
847   Schwern, Tels]
848
849 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
850   [Michael Schwern]
851
852 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
853   never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
854
855 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
856   strings have been sped up.  catdir() has also been sped up there.
857   [Tels]
858
859 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
860   tests added for them:
861      catdir('/', '../')   -> '\\'     (was '\..')
862      catdir('/', '..\\')  -> '\\      (was '')
863      canonpath('\\../')   -> '\\'     (was '')
864      canonpath('\\..\\')  -> '\\'     (was '')
865      canonpath('/../')    -> '\\'     (was '\..')
866      canonpath('/..\\')   -> '\\'     (was '')
867      catdir('\\', 'foo')  -> '\foo'   (was '\\foo')
868
869 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
870   that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
871   catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
872
873File::Spec 0.85  Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
874
875 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84.  I've forked development into a
876 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
877 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
878 5.8.1.
879
880 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
881   returned 1.
882
883 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
884   the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored.  Unfortunately, part
885   of the regression tests were broken too.  Now, if the $path
886   argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
887   argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
888   broken relative path previous versions returned.
889
890 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
891   \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
892
893 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
894
895File::Spec 0.84_01  Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
896
897 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
898
899 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
900   Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
901
902 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
903   on platforms where it can't run properly.
904
905File::Spec 0.84  Wed Jul  9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
906
907 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
908 from them, since they're pretty important changes.  The highlights,
909 from what I can tell, are listed here.
910
911 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
912   line with the other platforms.  This work was mostly/completely
913   done by Thomas Wegner.
914
915 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
916
917 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
918   File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
919
920 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
921   Module::Build.
922
923 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
924   eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
925
926 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
927   beginning of a path.
928
929 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
930
931 - Various POD fixups
932
933 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
934
935 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
936   implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
937
938 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
939   splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
940   than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
941
942 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
943   on Win32.
944
945 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
946   on its final argument.
947
948 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
949   path.
950
951 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
952   relativity when no base is given.
953
954 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
955   the $path argument.
956
957 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
958   It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
959
960 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
961
962 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
963
964File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
965   - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
966   - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
967     underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
968     needing to update the perl repository.
969   - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
970   - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
971   - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
972   - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
973     arrives where method prototypes are honored.
974