1Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools. 2 33.81 4 5- compare inode numbers as strings (github #18788) 6 73.80 8 9- use the PerlLIO_*() functions for lstat() and readlink() to support 10 Win32 symlink support added to perl. 11 12- skip a test that assumes getcwd() doesn't return symlinks on Win32, where 13 it can. 14 153.79 16 17- fix an off-by-one in bsd_realpath() 18 193.78 20 21- fallback to Internals::getcwd() for getcwd() if available (requires 22 $Config{d_getcwd}) 23 243.77 25 26- don't translate "..." to "..\.." on Win32 27 283.76 29 30- test t/cwd_enoent.t - also accept ESTALE for a directory that no 31 longer exists (github #16699) 32 333.75 34- Fix t/abs2rel.t on 5.8.8 by changing mkpath call to be 35 compatible with older File::Path 36 373.74 38- No changes. 39 403.73 41- Define NEED_croak_xs_usage, fixing usage of croak_xs_usage() 42- [perl #132853] Add metadata (ABSTRACT, LICENSE, AUTHOR) 43- [perl #132733] Skip cwd_enoent test on Cygwin 44- [perl #132651] Avoid infinite recursion in _perl_abs_path() 45- [rt.cpan.org #114236] Compatibility with File::Path 2.06_04 46 473.72 48- [perl #132648] Correct error returns from fast_abs_path() 49 503.71 51- [perl #130818] Remove support for running PathTools on MacOS 52 and EPOC 53 543.70 55- Change strcmp into the easier to read strEQ 56 573.69 58- avoid loading modules repeatedly at runtime 59- replace 'use vars' by 'our' 60- Switch to XSLoader from Dynaloader 61 623.68 63- avoid warning from pre-5.8 code for detecting tainted values 64- make taint.t detect that a pre-5.8 Perl supports tainting 65- avoid a dynamic linking problem on Perl 5.6 66 673.67 - Mon Feb 27 09:33:04 EST 2017 68- Add security usage note to File::Spec::no_upwards 69 703.66 - Sat Nov 19 10:30:19 MST 2016 71- white space change so can compile under C++11 72 733.65 - Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:15:33 -0700 74- (perl #127384)(CVE-2016-1238) 75 763.64 - Tue May 24 10:00:19 MST 2016 77- just minor pod changes to silence Pod::Checker 78 793.62 - Mon Jan 11 08:39:19 EST 2016 80- ensure File::Spec::canonpath() preserves taint (CVE-2015-8607) 81 823.61 - Sun Dec 20 12:00:00 EST 2015 (bleadperl only release) 83- improve performance of cwd on Win32 miniperl 84 853.60 - Wed Nov 18 21:28:01 EST 2015 86- add File::Spec::AmigaOS -- and actually ship it, this time 87 883.59 - Fri Nov 13 18:38:01 EST 2015 89- no changes since 5.58_01 90 913.58_01 - Mon Nov 9 17:35:28 EST 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE 92- add File::Spec::AmigaOS 93- fix INSTALLDIRS on post-5.10 perls 94 953.56_02 - Thu Jul 16 11:28:57 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE 96- fix $VERSION in loaded modules 97 983.56_01 - Sat Jul 11 18:07:28 EDT 2015 - TRIAL RELEASE 99- CPAN release of the PathTools included in perl v5.22.0 100- support for z/OS sysplexed systems 101- long-deprecated "fixpath" and "eliminate_macros" VMS functions removed 102- avoid turning leading // into / on cygwin 103- Force barename base to be a directory in File::Spec::VMS:abs2rel 104- Revise Unix syntax detection File::Spec::VMS::abs2rel 105- compiles on Android now 106- fewer compiler warnings 107- eliminate some runtime perl warnings, too 108 1093.47 - Fri May 23 18:52:00 2014 110- Improved Android support. 111- File::Spec::Unix->tmpdir: Always return an absolute path 112- File::Spec now has an XS version for performance. 113- QNX and VMS portability 114- tmpdir is updated when the environment changes. 115 1163.40 - Wed Jan 16 07:30:00 2013 117- Stop inadvertently skipping Spec.t on VMS. (Craig Berry) 118- Rethink EFS in File::Spec::VMS. (Craig Berry) 119- File::Spec::UNIX->abs2rel() gets it wrong with ".." components 120 [perl #111510] (Volker Schatz) 121- Add C define to remove taint support from perl (Steffen Mueller) 122- Remove "register" declarations as they are no longer 123 useful (Karl Williamson) 124- Add test for fast_abs_path in LF dir 125 [perl #115962] (Father Chrysostomos) 126- Cwd::fast_abs_path's untaint should allow for multiline 127 directories (Joel Berger) 128 1293.39_01 - Tue Dec 20 08:30:00 2011 130- [perl #51562] Problem & "solution" for building 5.10.0 with 131 win32+mingw+dmake (kmx) 132- Fix various compiler warnings from XS code (Zefram) 133- Fix typos (spelling errors) (Peter J. Acklam) 134- Remove Mac OS classic only tests from Cwd's Spec.t 135 and special case code from Cwd's cwd.t (Nicholas Clark) 136- Convert File::Spec's remaining tests to Test::More from Test 137 (Nicholas Clark) 138- dist/Cwd/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm: Fix broken link (Karl Williamson) 139- In Cwd::_win32_cwd() avoid a string eval when checking if we're 140 miniperl (Nicholas Clark) 141- Add PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to Cwd (Nicholas Clark) 142- In Cwd.xs on VMS, don't compile bsd_realpath() at all (Nicholas Clark) 143- Merge the implementation of Cwd::{fastcwd,getcwd} using 144 ALIAS (Nicholas Clark) 145- In Cwd.xs, swap to defaulting to disabled prototypes (Nicholas Clark) 146- Remove duplicate $VERSION handling code, made redundant 147 in 3.28_01 (Nicholas Clark) 148- In Cwd.xs, tidy the conditional code related to symlinks 149 (Nicholas Clark) 150- Keep verbatim pod within 80 cols (Father Chrysostomos) 151- [RT #36079] Convert ` to ' in docs (Jim Keenan) 152- [rt.cpan.org #45885] File::Spec: Don’t use tainted tmpdir 153 in 5.6 (Father Chrysostomos) 154 1553.33 - Mon Sep 20 18:00:00 2010 156- No functional changes since the previous release. 157- Fixes POD links 158 (part of core change2a6dc37471bea77f0c24fd1fe90c598a270c9968, 159 Florian Ragwitz) 160 1613.32 - Sun Sep 19 18:00:00 2010 162 163- Promote to stable release. 164 1653.31_03 - Fri Sep 17 20:00:00 2010 166 167- Colon delimiter and escaped delimiters for File::Spec::VMS 168 This is core change 61196b433b2b (Craig A. Berry) 169 1703.31_02 - Fri Jul 23 20:00:00 2010 171 172- Add TODO test for File::Spec->rel2abs() when under a symlink. 173- Make catpath return an empty directory rather than the current 174 directory if the directory name is empty. This allows catpath 175 to play nice with non-rooted logical names, as in 176 catpath('sys$login:', '', 'login.com'); 177 (Craig A. Berry) 178- Fix abs2rel bug in handling a Unix-style input. 179 (Craig A. Berry) 180- Assorted clarification and simplification of the documentation. 181 (Craig A. Berry) 182 1833.31 - Sun Nov 1 15:15:00 2009 184 185- Do not pack a Build.PL to avoid a circular dependency involving 186 ExtUtils::CBuilder (PathTools RT #50749) 187 1883.30_02 - Tue Sep 29 08:17:00 2009 189 190- Remove more special logic required for core perl. 191 1923.30_01 - Mon Sep 21 14:39:00 2009 193 194- Merge changes from core perl. 195 (Mostly changes regarding the lib->ext migration) 196 1973.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009 198 199- Promote to stable release. 200 2013.29_01 - Thu May 7 20:22:00 2009 202 203- Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau] 204 205- Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using 206 extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg] 207 208- VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec 209 (RT #42153) [John Malmberg] 210 2113.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008 212 213- Promote to stable release. 214 2153.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008 216 217- In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader, 218 otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32. 219 2203.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008 221 222 - Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double 223 slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark] 224 2253.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008 226 227 - Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file 228 argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards] 229 230 - Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations. 231 232 - canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an 233 explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away, 234 because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT 235 #33675] 236 237 - The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what 238 minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii] 239 2403.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008 241 242 - Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:', 243 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's 244 what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're 245 back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt . 246 [Audrey Tang] 247 2483.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008 249 250 - If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system, 251 we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve 252 Peters] 253 254 - Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters] 255 2563.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008 257 258 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when 259 Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl < 260 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did 261 before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri] 262 263 - abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later 264 version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern] 265 2663.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007 267 268 - Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use 269 VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg] 270 271 - tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}. 272 273 - case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path 274 argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance, 275 because this fact can vary on different volumes. 276 277 - File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to 278 get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it 279 was more appropriate. 280 281 - Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform. 282 283 - abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS. 284 285 - Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath() 286 and splitdir(). 287 2883.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007 289 290 - Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(), 291 and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff] 292 293 - For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the 294 volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will 295 be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem 296 (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini 297 Urban] 298 299 - On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of 300 possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban] 301 302 - Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban] 303 304 - canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently 305 return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards] 306 307 - Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an 308 empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms. 309 [Craig A. Berry] 310 311 - All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a 312 hodgepodge of various numbers. 313 3143.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007 315 316 - Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug 317 (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich] 318 319 - Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::* 320 functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois] 321 322 - We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we 323 avoid using it when in the core. 324 3253.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006 326 327 - Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a 328 dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters] 329 330 - Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the 331 Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml. 332 333 - Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL. 334 335 - Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my 336 OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov] 337 3383.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006 339 340 - Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending 341 waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know 342 what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative 343 path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32 344 too. 345 3463.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006 347 348 - Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other 349 volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive 350 letter. [Reported by several parties] 351 3523.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006 353 354 - Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help 355 podindex. [Gabor Szabo] 356 357 - On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return 358 '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that 359 the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full 360 path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr 361 Ciornii] 362 363 - On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the 364 given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume). 365 Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the 366 input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a 367 fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar . 368 3693.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006 370 371 - When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths 372 (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm 373 needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into 374 absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround, 375 making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called 376 repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea] 377 378 - Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39 379 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how 380 to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions 381 don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy] 382 383 - Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was 384 returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by 385 Heinrich Tegethoff] 386 3873.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006 388 389 - Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be 390 treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards] 391 392 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar', 393 '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao] 394 395 - Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/', 396 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes] 397 3983.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006 399 400 - The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments 401 (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since 402 that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a 403 subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping 404 if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf 405 when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden] 406 4073.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006 408 409 - Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward 410 compatibility XS layers for older perl versions. 411 412 - Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs() 413 methods that the cwd() function it discusses is 414 Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark] 415 416 - Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5 417 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps 418 as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error. 419 We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since 420 "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted 421 by Eamon Daly and others] 422 4233.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005 424 425 - The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to 426 the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is 427 safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did 428 abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in 429 which the XS version can't load, such as when running under 430 miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons] 431 432 - When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop 433 after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We 434 also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already 435 found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or 436 /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons] 437 438 - On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the 439 root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been 440 fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler] 441 442 - In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so 443 that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file', 444 '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John 445 E. Malmberg] 446 447 - In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of 448 just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg] 449 4503.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005 451 452 - canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a 453 //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where 454 that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O 455 rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that 456 calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin 457 unless you were actually *on* cygwin. Now it does. 458 459 - Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes 460 create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it 461 shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")). 462 4633.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005 464 465 - Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing 466 some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if 467 they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself 468 (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working 469 around. [Thomas L. Shinnick] 470 471 - Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs 472 needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov] 473 474 - abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments 475 were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns 476 curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden] 477 478 - The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified. 479 4803.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005 481 482 - Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root 483 directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich] 484 485 - Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on 486 Win32. [Gisle Aas] 487 4883.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005 489 490 - Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for 491 File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik] 492 4933.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005 494 495 - eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now 496 deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside 497 MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern] 498 499 - canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections 500 correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously 501 doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these 502 sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern] 503 5043.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005 505 506 - Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS 507 function, which were necessary to separate the variable 508 declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not 509 defined. [Yves] 510 511 - Apparently the _NT_cwd() routine is never defined externally like I 512 thought it was, so I simplified the code around it. 513 514 - When cwd() is implemented using the _backtick_pwd() function, it 515 sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl 516 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now 517 fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss] 518 5193.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005 520 521 - Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was 522 sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay] 523 5243.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005 525 526 - Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become 527 tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern] 528 529 - File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ . 530 [Michael Schwern] 531 532 - We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly 533 necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance 534 boost. [Richard Soderberg] 535 536 - Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works 537 (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi] 538 5393.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005 540 541 (No changes in functionality) 542 543 - Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse 544 foo/../bar sections. 545 546 - The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses 547 normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark] 548 5493.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005 550 551 - Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and 552 backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq] 553 554 - Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error 555 (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build 556 process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael 557 Garcia-Suarez] 558 559 - In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're 560 testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez] 561 5623.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005 563 564 - For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available, 565 because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl 566 was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C 567 function is defined on their platform when their perl is old. 568 Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by 569 several parties] 570 571 - Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker 572 doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib 573 file. [Jerry Hedden] 574 575 - Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had 576 read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry] 577 5783.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005 579 580 - Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root 581 directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac] 582 583 - Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during 584 testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments 585 and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end. 586 587 - Skip the _perl_abs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually 588 pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not 589 to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`. 590 5913.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005 592 593 - Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root 594 directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin] 595 596 - Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd 597 module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden] 598 599 - Removed the prototype from _perl_abs_path() and the XS version of 600 abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people 601 grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway. 602 603 - Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd 604 (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get 605 loaded instead of the one we're building & installing. 606 607 - Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't 608 require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois] 609 610 - Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay] 611 612 - Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on 613 older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root] 614 615 - Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there 616 won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of 617 disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke] 618 619 - Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a 620 syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern] 621 622 - The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were 623 lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're 624 restored now. [Craig A. Berry] 625 626 - File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat' 627 down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'. 628 This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax 629 parser. [Craig A. Berry] 630 631 - In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple 632 -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in 633 the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed 634 with the rest of the stuff. 635 636 - Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with 637 older perls like 5.005. 638 639 - abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted 640 by Neil MacMullen] 641 642 - Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm 643 file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski] 644 6453.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004 646 647 - Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from 648 the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL. 649 650 - Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't 651 even begin to work. [Reported by many] 652 6533.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004 654 655 - Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution. 656 This was done because the two modules use each other fairly 657 extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another 658 distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00 659 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and 660 File::Spec 0.90. 661 662================================================================== 663Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two 664separate distributions. The revision history for Cwd is shown here. 665The revision history for File::Spec is further below. 666================================================================== 667 668Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004 669 670 - Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the 671 distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly] 672 673 - Only test _perl_abs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work 674 (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry] 675 676Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004 677 678 - On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?) 679 occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster] 680 681 - Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32. 682 683 - Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path() 684 that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark] 685 To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't 686 otherwise use _perl_abs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE} 687 or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set. 688 689Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004 690 691 - The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's 692 fixed there. [Craig Berry] 693 694Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004 695 696 - Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could 697 only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This 698 was a problem in the pure-perl implementation _perl_abs_path(). 699 700 - Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above. 701 702 - On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the 703 current working directory of the specified drive/volume. 704 [Steve Hay] 705 706 - Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY 707 compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] 708 709 - When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the 710 path separator is ':'. 711 712 - On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32), 713 don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed 714 up load time. [Stefan Scherer] 715 716 - The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as 717 the XS version (;$). 718 719Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004 720 721 - The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from 722 within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp -> 723 /private/tmp). 724 725Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004 726 727 - For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented 728 interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results 729 to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry] 730 731Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004 732 733 - Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating 734 Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from 735 blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac] 736 737Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004 738 739 - We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular 740 expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This 741 fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No 742 changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay] 743 744Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004 745 746 - Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that 747 it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi] 748 749 - Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD 750 people] 751 752Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003 753 754 - Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been 755 tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant] 756 757Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003 758 759 (Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even 760 though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how 761 THAT happened...) 762 763 - There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which 764 isn't necessary. I've removed it. 765 766Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003 767 768 - The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl. 769 770 - We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of 771 Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard 772 lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if 773 you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL . 774 775 - Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim 776 of backporting this module to perl 5.005. 777 778 - Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls 779 carp()/croak(). 780 781 - Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael 782 Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich. 783 784 - Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression 785 tests. [Sam Vilain] 786 787Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003 788 789 - Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN 790 release by Ken Williams. 791 792================================================================== 793Prior to revision 3.00, Cwd and File::Spec were maintained as two 794separate distributions. The revision history for File::Spec is shown 795here. The revision history for Cwd is above. 796================================================================== 797 798File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004 799 800 - On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so 801 rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with 802 paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry] 803 804File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004 805 806 - Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and 807 splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry] 808 809 - Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative 810 path. [Craig A. Berry] 811 812File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004 813 814 - rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so 815 that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the 816 current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18. 817 [Steve Hay] 818 819 - Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character 820 class. [Alexander Farber] 821 822 - Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester] 823 824File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003 825 826 - With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004. 827 [Issue reported by Barry Kemble] 828 829File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003 830 831 - This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to 832 the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03. 833 834File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003 835 836 - On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first 837 two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument 838 only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which 839 included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the 840 catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02. 841 842 - Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously 843 abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it 844 properly returns '[.t3]file'. 845 846File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003 847 848 - abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the 849 notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second 850 argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do 851 not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first 852 argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was 853 (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output. 854 855 - catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:") 856 in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first 857 volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used. 858 859 - Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the 860 current working directory would get added to the second argument if 861 none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it 862 was contrary to the documented behavior. For example, 863 abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns 864 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo . 865 866 - catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..', 867 and now it returns '/'. 868 869File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003 870 871 Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1. 872 873 - The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting 874 its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi] 875 876 - We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael 877 Schwern, Tels] 878 879 - Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm. 880 [Michael Schwern] 881 882 - The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was 883 never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern] 884 885 - Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant 886 strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there. 887 [Tels] 888 889 - Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and 890 tests added for them: 891 catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..') 892 catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '') 893 canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '') 894 canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '') 895 canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..') 896 canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '') 897 catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo') 898 899 - catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume 900 that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume, 901 catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms. 902 903File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003 904 905 A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a 906 "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet 907 unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl 908 5.8.1. 909 910 - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have 911 returned 1. 912 913 - Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of 914 the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part 915 of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path 916 argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base 917 argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the 918 broken relative path previous versions returned. 919 920 - Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning 921 \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo 922 923 - Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir(). 924 925File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003 926 927 No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files 928 929 - Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and 930 Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file. 931 932 - The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping 933 on platforms where it can't run properly. 934 935File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003 936 937 I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release 938 from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights, 939 from what I can tell, are listed here. 940 941 - A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in 942 line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely 943 done by Thomas Wegner. 944 945 - The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported. 946 947 - Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from 948 File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec. 949 950 - A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via 951 Module::Build. 952 953 - Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been 954 eliminated. [Michael Schwern] 955 956 - canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the 957 beginning of a path. 958 959 - Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor] 960 961 - Various POD fixups 962 963 - Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels] 964 965 - When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir() 966 implementations now avoid returning a tainted path. 967 968 - File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(), 969 splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather 970 than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix. 971 972 - Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s 973 on Win32. 974 975 - catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath() 976 on its final argument. 977 978 - canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the 979 path. 980 981 - abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of 982 relativity when no base is given. 983 984 - abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in 985 the $path argument. 986 987 - canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo]. 988 It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations. 989 990 - tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'. 991 992 - abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base. 993 994File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000 995 - Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms 996 - Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so 997 underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone 998 needing to update the perl repository. 999 - abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks 1000 - VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository. 1001 - Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules. 1002 - Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future 1003 arrives where method prototypes are honored. 1004