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