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1Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.
2
33.74
4- No changes.
5
63.73
7- Define NEED_croak_xs_usage, fixing usage of croak_xs_usage()
8- [perl #132853] Add metadata (ABSTRACT, LICENSE, AUTHOR)
9- [perl #132733] Skip cwd_enoent test on Cygwin
10- [perl #132651] Avoid infinite recursion in _perl_abs_path()
11- [rt.cpan.org #114236] Compatibility with File::Path 2.06_04
12
133.72
14- [perl #132648] Correct error returns from fast_abs_path()
15
163.71
17- [perl #130818] Remove support for running PathTools on MacOS
18  and EPOC
19
203.70
21- Change strcmp into the easier to read strEQ
22
233.69
24- avoid loading modules repeatedly at runtime
25- replace 'use vars' by 'our'
26- Switch to XSLoader from Dynaloader
27
283.68
29- avoid warning from pre-5.8 code for detecting tainted values
30- make taint.t detect that a pre-5.8 Perl supports tainting
31- avoid a dynamic linking problem on Perl 5.6
32
333.67 - Mon Feb 27 09:33:04 EST 2017
34- Add security usage note to File::Spec::no_upwards
35
363.66 - Sat Nov 19 10:30:19 MST 2016
37- white space change so can compile under C++11
38
393.65 - Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:15:33 -0700
40- (perl #127384)(CVE-2016-1238)
41
423.64 - Tue May 24 10:00:19 MST 2016
43- just minor pod changes to silence Pod::Checker
44
453.62 - Mon Jan 11 08:39:19 EST 2016
46- ensure File::Spec::canonpath() preserves taint (CVE-2015-8607)
47
483.61 - Sun Dec 20 12:00:00 EST 2015 (bleadperl only release)
49- improve performance of cwd on Win32 miniperl
50
513.60 - Wed Nov 18 21:28:01 EST 2015
52- add File::Spec::AmigaOS -- and actually ship it, this time
53
543.59 - Fri Nov 13 18:38:01 EST 2015
55- no changes since 5.58_01
56
573.58_01 - Mon Nov  9 17:35:28 EST 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
58- add File::Spec::AmigaOS
59- fix INSTALLDIRS on post-5.10 perls
60
613.56_02 - Thu Jul 16 11:28:57 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
62- fix $VERSION in loaded modules
63
643.56_01 - Sat Jul 11 18:07:28 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE
65- CPAN release of the PathTools included in perl v5.22.0
66- support for z/OS sysplexed systems
67- long-deprecated "fixpath" and "eliminate_macros" VMS functions removed
68- avoid turning leading // into / on cygwin
69- Force barename base to be a directory in File::Spec::VMS:abs2rel
70- Revise Unix syntax detection File::Spec::VMS::abs2rel
71- compiles on Android now
72- fewer compiler warnings
73- eliminate some runtime perl warnings, too
74
753.47 - Fri May 23 18:52:00 2014
76- Improved Android support.
77- File::Spec::Unix->tmpdir: Always return an absolute path
78- File::Spec now has an XS version for performance.
79- QNX and VMS portability
80- tmpdir is updated when the environment changes.
81
823.40 - Wed Jan 16 07:30:00 2013
83- Stop inadvertently skipping Spec.t on VMS. (Craig Berry)
84- Rethink EFS in File::Spec::VMS. (Craig Berry)
85- File::Spec::UNIX->abs2rel() gets it wrong with ".." components
86  [perl #111510] (Volker Schatz)
87- Add C define to remove taint support from perl (Steffen Mueller)
88- Remove "register" declarations as they are no longer
89  useful (Karl Williamson)
90- Add test for fast_abs_path in LF dir
91  [perl #115962] (Father Chrysostomos)
92- Cwd::fast_abs_path's untaint should allow for multiline
93  directories (Joel Berger)
94
953.39_01 - Tue Dec 20 08:30:00 2011
96- [perl #51562] Problem & "solution" for building 5.10.0 with
97  win32+mingw+dmake (kmx)
98- Fix various compiler warnings from XS code (Zefram)
99- Fix typos (spelling errors) (Peter J. Acklam)
100- Remove Mac OS classic only tests from Cwd's Spec.t
101  and special case code from Cwd's cwd.t (Nicholas Clark)
102- Convert File::Spec's remaining tests to Test::More from Test
103  (Nicholas Clark)
104- dist/Cwd/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm: Fix broken link (Karl Williamson)
105- In Cwd::_win32_cwd() avoid a string eval when checking if we're
106  miniperl (Nicholas Clark)
107- Add PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to Cwd (Nicholas Clark)
108- In Cwd.xs on VMS, don't compile bsd_realpath() at all (Nicholas Clark)
109- Merge the implementation of Cwd::{fastcwd,getcwd} using
110  ALIAS (Nicholas Clark)
111- In Cwd.xs, swap to defaulting to disabled prototypes (Nicholas Clark)
112- Remove duplicate $VERSION handling code, made redundant
113  in 3.28_01 (Nicholas Clark)
114- In Cwd.xs, tidy the conditional code related to symlinks
115  (Nicholas Clark)
116- Keep verbatim pod within 80 cols (Father Chrysostomos)
117- [RT #36079] Convert ` to ' in docs (Jim Keenan)
118- [rt.cpan.org #45885] File::Spec: Don’t use tainted tmpdir
119  in 5.6 (Father Chrysostomos)
120
1213.33 - Mon Sep 20 18:00:00 2010
122- No functional changes since the previous release.
123- Fixes POD links
124  (part of core change2a6dc37471bea77f0c24fd1fe90c598a270c9968,
125   Florian Ragwitz)
126
1273.32 - Sun Sep 19 18:00:00 2010
128
129- Promote to stable release.
130
1313.31_03 - Fri Sep 17 20:00:00 2010
132
133- Colon delimiter and escaped delimiters for File::Spec::VMS
134  This is core change 61196b433b2b (Craig A. Berry)
135
1363.31_02 - Fri Jul 23 20:00:00 2010
137
138- Add TODO test for File::Spec->rel2abs() when under a symlink.
139- Make catpath return an empty directory rather than the current
140  directory if the directory name is empty.  This allows catpath
141  to play nice with non-rooted logical names, as in
142        catpath('sys$login:', '', 'login.com');
143  (Craig A. Berry)
144- Fix abs2rel bug in handling a Unix-style input.
145  (Craig A. Berry)
146- Assorted clarification and simplification of the documentation.
147  (Craig A. Berry)
148
1493.31 - Sun Nov  1 15:15:00 2009
150
151- Do not pack a Build.PL to avoid a circular dependency involving
152  ExtUtils::CBuilder (PathTools RT #50749)
153
1543.30_02 - Tue Sep 29 08:17:00 2009
155
156- Remove more special logic required for core perl.
157
1583.30_01 - Mon Sep 21 14:39:00 2009
159
160- Merge changes from core perl.
161  (Mostly changes regarding the lib->ext migration)
162
1633.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009
164
165- Promote to stable release.
166
1673.29_01 - Thu May  7 20:22:00 2009
168
169- Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
170
171- Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using
172  extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
173
174- VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec
175  (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]
176
1773.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008
178
179- Promote to stable release.
180
1813.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008
182
183- In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader,
184  otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.
185
1863.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008
187
188 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double
189   slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]
190
1913.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008
192
193 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file
194   argument on VMS.  [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
195
196 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
197
198 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an
199   explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away,
200   because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT
201   #33675]
202
203 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what
204   minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
205
2063.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008
207
208 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:',
209   'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's
210   what catpath() is for) that changed between versions.  Now we're
211   back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt .
212   [Audrey Tang]
213
2143.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008
215
216 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system,
217   we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve
218   Peters]
219
220 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]
221
2223.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008
223
224 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
225   Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
226   5.10.  It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
227   before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
228
229 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
230   version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]
231
2323.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007
233
234 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use
235   VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
236
237 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
238
239 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path
240   argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance,
241   because this fact can vary on different volumes.
242
243 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to
244   get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it
245   was more appropriate.
246
247 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
248
249 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
250
251 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath()
252   and splitdir().
253
2543.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007
255
256 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(),
257   and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
258
259 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the
260   volume under scrutiny.  When Win32API::File is available, it will
261   be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem
262   (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini
263   Urban]
264
265 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of
266   possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
267
268 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
269
270 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently
271   return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
272
273 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an
274   empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms.
275   [Craig A. Berry]
276
277 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a
278   hodgepodge of various numbers.
279
2803.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007
281
282 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug
283   (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
284
285 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::*
286   functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
287
288 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we
289   avoid using it when in the core.
290
2913.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006
292
293 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a
294   dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
295
296 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the
297   Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
298
299 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
300
301 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my
302   OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]
303
3043.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006
305
306 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending
307   waterbed...).  This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know
308   what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative
309   path, like C:foo.txt .  This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32
310   too.
311
3123.22 - Mon Oct  9 21:50:52 2006
313
314 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other
315   volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive
316   letter. [Reported by several parties]
317
3183.21 - Wed Oct  4 21:16:43 2006
319
320 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help
321   podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
322
323 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return
324   '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that
325   the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full
326   path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'.  This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr
327   Ciornii]
328
329 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the
330   given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume).
331   Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the
332   input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a
333   fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .
334
3353.19  Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006
336
337 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths
338   (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm
339   needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into
340   absolute paths.  Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround,
341   making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called
342   repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
343
344 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39
345   when on Windows.  This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how
346   to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions
347   don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
348
349 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was
350   returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by
351   Heinrich Tegethoff]
352
3533.18  Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006
354
355 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be
356   treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
357
358 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar',
359   '/') works as expected.  [Chia-liang Kao]
360
361 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/',
362   'foo/bar') works as expected.  [Mark Grimes]
363
3643.17  Fri Mar  3 16:52:30 CST 2006
365
366 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments
367   (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd).  Since
368   that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a
369   subroutine that ignores its arguments.  We could skip this wrapping
370   if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf
371   when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]
372
3733.16  Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006
374
375 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward
376   compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
377
378 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs()
379   methods that the cwd() function it discusses is
380   Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
381
382 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5
383   (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps
384   as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error.
385   We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since
386   "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted
387   by Eamon Daly and others]
388
3893.15  Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005
390
391 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to
392   the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible.  This is
393   safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did
394   abs_path('.').  The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in
395   which the XS version can't load, such as when running under
396   miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
397
398 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop
399   after we find the first one rather than continuing the search.  We
400   also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already
401   found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or
402   /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
403
404 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the
405   root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir).  This has been
406   fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
407
408 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so
409   that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file',
410   '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John
411   E. Malmberg]
412
413 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of
414   just returning '[]'.  Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]
415
4163.14  Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005
417
418 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a
419   //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where
420   that means something special.  It used to check the value of $^O
421   rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that
422   calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin
423   unless you were actually *on* cygwin.  Now it does.
424
425 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes
426   create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it
427   shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).
428
4293.13  Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005
430
431 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing
432   some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if
433   they didn't exist already.  This is probably a bug in perl itself
434   (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working
435   around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
436
437 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs
438   needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
439
440 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments
441   were identical, which made no sense.  Now it returns
442   curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
443
444 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.
445
4463.12  Mon Oct  3 22:09:12 CDT 2005
447
448 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root
449   directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
450
451 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on
452   Win32. [Gisle Aas]
453
4543.11  Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005
455
456 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for
457   File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]
458
4593.10  Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005
460
461 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now
462   deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside
463   MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
464
465 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections
466   correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously
467   doing.  Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these
468   sections, as doing so would be incorrect.  [Michael Schwern]
469
4703.09  Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005
471
472 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS
473   function, which were necessary to separate the variable
474   declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not
475   defined. [Yves]
476
477 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I
478   thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
479
480 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it
481   sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl
482   5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken.  This is now
483   fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]
484
4853.08  Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005
486
487 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was
488   sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]
489
4903.07  Fri May  6 07:46:45 CDT 2005
491
492 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become
493   tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
494
495 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32.  Now it returns \ .
496   [Michael Schwern]
497
498 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly
499   necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance
500   boost. [Richard Soderberg]
501
502 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works
503   (or works better) on Symbian OS phones.  [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
504
5053.06  Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005
506
507 (No changes in functionality)
508
509 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse
510   foo/../bar sections.
511
512 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses
513   normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]
514
5153.05  Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005
516
517 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and
518   backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
519
520 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error
521   (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build
522   process).  This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael
523   Garcia-Suarez]
524
525 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're
526   testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
527
5283.04  Sun Feb  6 17:27:38 CST 2005
529
530 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available,
531   because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl
532   was built.  We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C
533   function is defined on their platform when their perl is old.
534   Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by
535   several parties]
536
537 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker
538   doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib
539   file. [Jerry Hedden]
540
541 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had
542   read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]
543
5443.03  Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005
545
546 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root
547   directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
548
549 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during
550   testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments
551   and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
552
553 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually
554   pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not
555   to push it.  Let 'em use `cwd`.
556
5573.02  Sun Jan  9 19:29:52 CST 2005
558
559 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root
560   directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
561
562 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd
563   module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
564
565 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of
566   abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people
567   grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
568
569 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd
570   (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get
571   loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
572
573 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't
574   require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
575
576 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
577
578 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on
579   older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
580
581 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there
582   won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of
583   disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
584
585 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a
586   syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
587
588 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were
589   lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution.  They're
590   restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
591
592 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat'
593   down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'.
594   This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax
595   parser. [Craig A. Berry]
596
597 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple
598   -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in
599   the distribution.  It is only used for testing, it won't be installed
600   with the rest of the stuff.
601
602 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with
603   older perls like 5.005.
604
605 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted
606   by Neil MacMullen]
607
608 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm
609   file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]
610
6113.01  Mon Sep  6 22:28:06 CDT 2004
612
613 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from
614   the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
615
616 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't
617   even begin to work. [Reported by many]
618
6193.00  Thu Sep  2 22:15:07 CDT 2004
620
621 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution.
622   This was done because the two modules use each other fairly
623   extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another
624   distribution was deemed nigh-impossible.  The code in revision 3.00
625   of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and
626   File::Spec 0.90.
627
628==================================================================
629Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
630separate distributions.  The revision history for Cwd is shown here.
631The revision history for File::Spec is further below.
632==================================================================
633
634Cwd 2.21  Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004
635
636 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the
637   distribution with MakeMaker anyway.  [Rohan Carly]
638
639 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work
640   (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]
641
642Cwd 2.20  Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004
643
644 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?)
645   occurred when calling getdcwd().  This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
646
647 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
648
649 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path()
650   that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark]
651   To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't
652   otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE}
653   or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.
654
655Cwd 2.19  Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004
656
657 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's
658   fixed there. [Craig Berry]
659
660Cwd 2.18  Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004
661
662 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could
663   only be called on directories, and died when called on files.  This
664   was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path().
665
666 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
667
668 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the
669   current working directory of the specified drive/volume.
670   [Steve Hay]
671
672 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY
673   compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
674
675 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the
676   path separator is ':'.
677
678 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32),
679   don't look for a `pwd` command externally.  This can greatly speed
680   up load time.  [Stefan Scherer]
681
682 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as
683   the XS version (;$).
684
685Cwd 2.17  Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004
686
687 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from
688   within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp ->
689   /private/tmp).
690
691Cwd 2.16  Sat Mar  6 17:56:31 CST 2004
692
693 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented
694   interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results
695   to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]
696
697Cwd 2.15  Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004
698
699 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating
700   Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from
701   blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]
702
703Cwd 2.14  Thu Jan  8 18:51:08 CST 2004
704
705 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular
706   expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests.  This
707   fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms.  No
708   changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]
709
710Cwd 2.13  Fri Jan  2 22:29:42 CST 2004
711
712 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that
713   it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
714
715 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD
716   people]
717
718Cwd 2.12  Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003
719
720 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been
721   tainted, but wasn't.  [Reported by Tom Wyant]
722
723Cwd 2.10  Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003
724
725 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even
726 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10.  Not sure how
727 THAT happened...)
728
729 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which
730   isn't necessary.  I've removed it.
731
732Cwd 2.09  Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003
733
734 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
735
736 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of
737   Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard
738   lib/-based file layout.  No version of Module::Build is required if
739   you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
740
741 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim
742   of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
743
744 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls
745   carp()/croak().
746
747 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael
748   Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
749
750 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression
751   tests. [Sam Vilain]
752
753Cwd 2.08  Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003
754
755  - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN
756    release by Ken Williams.
757
758==================================================================
759Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two
760separate distributions.  The revision history for File::Spec is shown
761here.  The revision history for Cwd is above.
762==================================================================
763
764File::Spec 0.90  Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004
765
766 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so
767   rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with
768   paths containing slashes.  [Craig A. Berry]
769
770File::Spec 0.89  Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004
771
772 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and
773   splitdir().  [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
774
775 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative
776   path. [Craig A. Berry]
777
778File::Spec 0.88  Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004
779
780 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so
781   that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the
782   current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18.
783   [Steve Hay]
784
785 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character
786   class. [Alexander Farber]
787
788 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]
789
790File::Spec 0.87  Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003
791
792 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004.
793   [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]
794
795File::Spec 0.86  Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003
796
797 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1.  It is identical to
798   the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.
799
800File::Spec 0.85_03  Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003
801
802 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first
803   two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument
804   only.  Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which
805   included both volumes.  This change is the same in spirit to the
806   catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
807
808 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously
809   abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it
810   properly returns '[.t3]file'.
811
812File::Spec 0.85_02  Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003
813
814 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the
815   notion of a volume.  If the volumes of the first and second
816   argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do
817   not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first
818   argument.  Previously the volume of the second argument was
819   (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
820
821 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:")
822   in its first argument, and then its second argument.  The first
823   volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
824
825 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the
826   current working directory would get added to the second argument if
827   none was specified.  This might have been somewhat helpful, but it
828   was contrary to the documented behavior.  For example,
829   abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns
830   'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
831
832 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..',
833   and now it returns '/'.
834
835File::Spec 0.85_01  Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003
836
837 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.
838
839 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting
840   its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
841
842 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael
843   Schwern, Tels]
844
845 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm.
846   [Michael Schwern]
847
848 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was
849   never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
850
851 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant
852   strings have been sped up.  catdir() has also been sped up there.
853   [Tels]
854
855 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and
856   tests added for them:
857      catdir('/', '../')   -> '\\'     (was '\..')
858      catdir('/', '..\\')  -> '\\      (was '')
859      canonpath('\\../')   -> '\\'     (was '')
860      canonpath('\\..\\')  -> '\\'     (was '')
861      canonpath('/../')    -> '\\'     (was '\..')
862      canonpath('/..\\')   -> '\\'     (was '')
863      catdir('\\', 'foo')  -> '\foo'   (was '\\foo')
864
865 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume
866   that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume,
867   catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.
868
869File::Spec 0.85  Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003
870
871 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84.  I've forked development into a
872 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet
873 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl
874 5.8.1.
875
876 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have
877   returned 1.
878
879 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of
880   the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored.  Unfortunately, part
881   of the regression tests were broken too.  Now, if the $path
882   argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base
883   argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the
884   broken relative path previous versions returned.
885
886 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning
887   \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
888
889 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().
890
891File::Spec 0.84_01  Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003
892
893 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files
894
895 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and
896   Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
897
898 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping
899   on platforms where it can't run properly.
900
901File::Spec 0.84  Wed Jul  9 22:21:23 CDT 2003
902
903 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release
904 from them, since they're pretty important changes.  The highlights,
905 from what I can tell, are listed here.
906
907 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in
908   line with the other platforms.  This work was mostly/completely
909   done by Thomas Wegner.
910
911 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
912
913 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from
914   File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
915
916 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via
917   Module::Build.
918
919 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been
920   eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
921
922 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the
923   beginning of a path.
924
925 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
926
927 - Various POD fixups
928
929 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
930
931 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir()
932   implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
933
934 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(),
935   splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather
936   than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
937
938 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s
939   on Win32.
940
941 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath()
942   on its final argument.
943
944 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the
945   path.
946
947 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of
948   relativity when no base is given.
949
950 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in
951   the $path argument.
952
953 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo].
954   It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
955
956 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
957
958 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.
959
960File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000
961   - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
962   - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so
963     underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone
964     needing to update the perl repository.
965   - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
966   - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
967   - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
968   - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future
969     arrives where method prototypes are honored.
970