Revision history for Perl distribution PathTools.

3.33 - Mon Sep 20 18:00:00 2010
- No functional changes since the previous release. - Fixes POD links
(part of core change2a6dc37471bea77f0c24fd1fe90c598a270c9968, Florian Ragwitz)

3.32 - Sun Sep 19 18:00:00 2010

• Promote to stable release.

3.31_03 - Fri Sep 17 20:00:00 2010

• Colon delimiter and escaped delimiters for File::Spec::VMS This is core change 61196b433b2b (Craig A. Berry)

3.31_02 - Fri Jul 23 20:00:00 2010

• Add TODO test for File::Spec->rel2abs() when under a symlink.
• Make catpath return an empty directory rather than the current directory if the directory name is empty. This allows catpath to play nice with non-rooted logical names, as in

  catpath('sys$login:', '', 'login.com'); (Craig A. Berry)

• Fix abs2rel bug in handling a Unix-style input. (Craig A. Berry)
• Assorted clarification and simplification of the documentation. (Craig A. Berry)

3.31 - Sun Nov 1 15:15:00 2009

• Do not pack a Build.PL to avoid a circular dependency involving ExtUtils::CBuilder (PathTools RT #50749)

3.30_02 - Tue Sep 29 08:17:00 2009

• Remove more special logic required for core perl.

3.30_01 - Mon Sep 21 14:39:00 2009

• Merge changes from core perl. (Mostly changes regarding the lib->ext migration)

3.30 - Sun May 10 10:55:00 2009

• Promote to stable release.

3.29_01 - Thu May 7 20:22:00 2009

• Minor fixes for QNX6. [Sean Boudreau]
• Update to support VMS in Unix compatible mode and/or file names using extended character sets. (RT #42154) [John Malmberg]
• VMS support for Unix and extended file specifications in File::Spec (RT #42153) [John Malmberg]

3.29 - Wed Oct 29 20:48:11 2008

• Promote to stable release.

3.28_03 - Mon Oct 27 22:12:11 2008

• In Cwd.pm, pass the un-munged $VERSION to XSLoader/DynaLoader, otherwise development releases fail tests on Win32.

3.28_02 - Mon Oct 27 20:13:11 2008

• Fixed some issues on QNX/NTO related to paths with double slashes. [Matt Kraai & Nicholas Clark]

3.28_01 - Fri Jul 25 21:18:11 2008

• Fixed and clarified the behavior of splitpath() with a $no_file argument on VMS. [Craig A. Berry, Peter Edwards]
• Removed some function prototypes and other Perl::Critic violations.
• canonpath() and catdir() and catfile() on Win32 now make an explicit (and unnecessary) copy of their arguments right away, because apparently if we don't, we sabotage all of Win32dom. [RT #33675]
• The Makefile.PL now has 'use 5.005;' to explicitly show what minimum version of perl we support. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]

3.2701 - Mon Feb 11 21:43:51 2008

• Fixed an edge case for Win32 catdir('C:', 'foo') and catfile('C:', 'foo.txt') (which the caller's not really supposed to do, that's what catpath() is for) that changed between versions. Now we're back to the old behavior, which was to return C:\foo and C:\foo.txt . [Audrey Tang]

3.27 - Wed Jan 16 20:20:49 2008

• If strlcpy() and strlcat() aren't available on the user's system, we now use ppport.h to provide them, so our C code works. [Steve Peters]
• Upgraded to a newer version of ppport.h [Steve Peters]

3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008

• case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl < 5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]
• abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]

3.2501 - Mon Dec 24 20:33:02 2007

• Reimplemented abs_path() on VMS to use VMS::Filespec::vms_realpath() when it's available. [John E. Malmberg]
• tmpdir() on Cygwin now also looks in $ENV{TMP} and $ENV{TEMP}.
• case_tolerant() on Cygwin and Win32 now take an optional path argument, defaulting to the C drive, to check for case tolerance, because this fact can vary on different volumes.
• File::Spec on Unix now uses Cwd::getcwd() rather than Cwd::cwd() to get the current directory because I guess someone on p5p thought it was more appropriate.
• Added a large set of File::Spec tests for the Cygwin platform.
• abs_path() now behaves correctly with symbolic links on VMS.
• Someone fixed a couple of mysterious edge cases in VMS' canonpath() and splitdir().

3.25_01 - Sat Oct 13 21:13:57 2007

• Major fixes on Win32, including a rewrite of catdir(), catfile(), and canonpath() in terms of a single body of code. [Heinrich Tegethoff]
• For Win32 and Cygwin, case-tolerance can vary depending on the volume under scrutiny. When Win32API::File is available, it will be employed to determine case-sensitivity of the given filesystem (C: by default), otherwise we still return the default of 1. [Reini Urban]
• On Cygwin, we added $ENV{'TMP'} and $ENV{'TEMP'} to the list of possible places to look for tmpdir() return values. [Reini Urban]
• Added lots more tests for Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
• canonpath() with no arguments and canonpath(undef) now consistently return undef on all platforms. [Spotted by Peter John Edwards]
• Fixed splitdir('') and splitdir(undef) and splitdir() to return an empty list on VMS and MacOS, like it does on other platforms. [Craig A. Berry]
• All .pm files now have the same $VERSION number, rather than a hodgepodge of various numbers.

3.25 - Mon May 21 21:07:26 2007

• Added a workaround for auto-vivication-of-function-args Perl bug (triggered by OS/2-specific code). [Ilya Zakharevich]
• Sync with a bleadperl change: miniperl can no longer use Win32::* functions because it cannot load Win32.dll. [Jan Dubois]
• We only need to load ppport.h when building outside the core, so we avoid using it when in the core.

3.24 - Sun Nov 19 22:52:49 2006

• Fixed a bug in the $ENV{PWD}-updating of Cwd::chdir() when a dirhandle is passed in. [Steve Peters]
• Add perl 5.005 to the list of requirements in the Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml.
• Add ExtUtils::CBuilder to the list of build_requires in Build.PL.
• Improved performance of canonpath() on Unix-ish platforms - on my OS X laptop it looks like it's about twice as fast. [Ruslan Zakirov]

3.23 - Wed Oct 11 12:11:25 2006

• Yet more Win32 fixes (sigh... seems like I'm fighting a neverending waterbed...). This time, fixed file_name_is_absolute() to know what it's doing when the path includes a volume but a relative path, like C:foo.txt . This bug had impact in rel2abs() on Win32 too.

3.22 - Mon Oct 9 21:50:52 2006

• Fixed the t/crossplatform.t test on Win32 (and possibly other volume-aware platforms) now that rel2abs() always adds a drive letter. [Reported by several parties]

3.21 - Wed Oct 4 21:16:43 2006

• Added a bunch of X<> tags to the File::Spec docs to help podindex. [Gabor Szabo]
• On Win32, abs2rel('C:\one\two\t\foo', 't\bar') should return '..\foo' when the cwd is 'C:\one\two', but it wasn't noticing that the two relevant volumes were the same so it would return the full path 'C:\one\two\t\foo'. This is fixed. [Spotted by Alexandr Ciornii]
• On Win32, rel2abs() now always adds a volume (drive letter) if the given path doesn't have a volume (drive letter or UNC volume). Previously it could return a value that didn't have a volume if the input was a semi-absolute path like /foo/bar instead of a fully-absolute path like C:/foo/bar .

3.19 Tue Jul 11 22:40:26 CDT 2006

• When abs2rel() is called with two relative paths (e.g. abs2rel('foo/bar/baz', 'foo/bar')) the resolution algorithm needlessly called cwd() (twice!) to turn both arguments into absolute paths. Now it avoids the cwd() calls with a workaround, making a big efficiency win when abs2rel() is called repeatedly. [Brendan O'Dea]
• Added a build-time dependency on ExtUtils::Install version 1.39 when on Windows. This is necessary because version 1.39 knows how to replace an in-use Cwd shared library, but previous versions don't. [Suggested by Adam Kennedy]
• Fixed File::Spec::Win32->canonpath('foo/../bar'), which was returning \bar, and now properly returns just bar. [Spotted by Heinrich Tegethoff]

3.18 Thu Apr 27 22:01:38 CDT 2006

• Fixed some problems on VMS in which a directory called "0" would be treated as a second-class citizen. [Peter (Stig) Edwards]
• Added a couple of regression tests to make sure abs2rel('/foo/bar', '/') works as expected. [Chia-liang Kao]
• Added a couple of regression tests to make sure catdir('/', 'foo/bar') works as expected. [Mark Grimes]

3.17 Fri Mar 3 16:52:30 CST 2006

• The Cygwin version of Cwd::cwd() will croak if given any arguments (which can happen if, for example, it's called as Cwd->cwd). Since that croaking is bad, we now wrap the original cwd() in a subroutine that ignores its arguments. We could skip this wrapping if a future version of perl changes cygwin.c's cwd() to not barf when fed an argument. [Jerry D. Hedden]

3.16 Mon Jan 30 20:48:41 CST 2006

• Updated to version 3.06 of ppport.h, which provides backward compatibility XS layers for older perl versions.
• Clarify in the docs for File::Spec's abs2rel() and rel2abs() methods that the cwd() function it discusses is Cwd::cwd(). [Spotted by Steven Lembark]
• Apparently the version of File::Path that ships with perl 5.8.5 (and perhaps others) calls Cwd::getcwd() with an argument (perhaps as a method?), which causes it to die with a prototyping error. We've eliminated the prototype by using the "(...)" arglist, since "PROTOTYPE: DISABLE" for the function didn't seem to work. [Spotted by Eamon Daly and others]

3.15 Tue Dec 27 14:17:39 CST 2005

• The Cwd::getcwd() function on *nix is now a direct pass-through to the underlying getcwd() C library function when possible. This is safer and faster than the previous implementation, which just did abs_path('.'). The pure-perl version has been kept for cases in which the XS version can't load, such as when running under miniperl. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
• When Cwd searches for a 'pwd' executable in the $PATH, we now stop after we find the first one rather than continuing the search. We also avoid the $PATH search altogether when a 'pwd' was already found in a well-known and well-trusted location like /bin or /usr/bin. [Suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons]
• On Win32 abs2rel($path, $base) was failing whenever $base is the root of a volume (such as C:\ or \\share\dir). This has been fixed. [Reported by Bryan Daimler]
• In abs2rel() on VMS, we've fixed handling of directory trees so that the test $file = File::Spec::VMS->abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file', '[t1.t2.t3]') returns 'file' instead of an empty string. [John E. Malmberg]
• In canonpath() on VMS, '[]' was totally optimized away instead of just returning '[]'. Now it's fixed. [John E. Malmberg]

3.14 Thu Nov 17 18:08:44 CST 2005

• canonpath() has some logic in it that avoids collapsing a //double/slash at the beginning of a pathname on platforms where that means something special. It used to check the value of $^O rather than the classname it was called as, which meant that calling File::Spec::Cygwin->canonpath() didn't act like cygwin unless you were actually on cygwin. Now it does.
• Fixed a major bug on Cygwin in which catdir() could sometimes create things that look like //network/paths in cases when it shouldn't (e.g. catdir("/", "foo", "bar")).

3.13 Tue Nov 15 23:50:37 CST 2005

• Calling tmpdir() on Win32 had the unintended side-effect of storing some undef values in %INC for the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP entries if they didn't exist already. This is probably a bug in perl itself (submitted as #37441 on rt.perl.org), which we're now working around. [Thomas L. Shinnick]
• Integrated a change from bleadperl - a certain #ifdef in Cwd.xs needs to apply to WIN32 but not WinCE. [Vadim Konovalov]
• abs2rel() used to return the empty string when its two arguments were identical, which made no sense. Now it returns curdir(). [Spotted by David Golden]
• The Unix and Win32 implementations of abs2rel() have been unified.

3.12 Mon Oct 3 22:09:12 CDT 2005

• Fixed a testing error on OS/2 in which a drive letter for the root directory was confusing things. [Ilya Zakharevich]
• Integrated a patch from bleadperl for fixing path() on Win32. [Gisle Aas]

3.11 Sat Aug 27 20:12:55 CDT 2005

• Fixed a couple of typos in the documentation for File::Spec::Mac. [Piotr Fusik]

3.10 Thu Aug 25 22:24:57 CDT 2005

• eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS are now deprecated, since they are MakeMaker-specific and now live inside MakeMaker. [Michael Schwern]
• canonpath() on Win32 now collapses foo/.. (or foo\..) sections correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously doing. Note that canonpath() on Unix still does NOT collapse these sections, as doing so would be incorrect. [Michael Schwern]

3.09 Tue Jun 14 20:36:50 CDT 2005

• Added some block delimiters (brackets) in the Perl_getcwd_sv() XS function, which were necessary to separate the variable declarations from the statements when HAS_GETCWD is not defined. [Yves]
• Apparently the NTcwd() routine is never defined externally like I thought it was, so I simplified the code around it.
• When cwd() is implemented using the backtickpwd() function, it sometimes could create accidental undef entries in %ENV under perl 5.6, because local($hash{key}) is somewhat broken. This is now fixed with an appropriate workaround. [Neil Watkiss]

3.08 Sat May 28 10:10:29 CDT 2005

• Fixed a test failure with fast_abs_path() on Windows - it was sensitive to the rootdir() change from version 3.07. [Steve Hay]

3.07 Fri May 6 07:46:45 CDT 2005

• Fixed a bug in which the special perl variable $^O would become tainted under certain versions of perl. [Michael Schwern]
• File::Spec->rootdir() was returning / on Win32. Now it returns \ . [Michael Schwern]
• We now avoid modifying @_ in tmpdir() when it's not strictly necessary, which reportedly provides a modest performance boost. [Richard Soderberg]
• Made a couple of slight changes to the Win32 code so that it works (or works better) on Symbian OS phones. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]

3.06 Wed Apr 13 20:47:26 CDT 2005

(No changes in functionality)

• Added a note to the canonpath() docs about why it doesn't collapse foo/../bar sections.
• The internal-only function bsd_realpath() in the XS file now uses normal arg syntax instead of K&R syntax. [Nicholas Clark]

3.05 Mon Feb 28 07:22:58 CST 2005

• Fixed a bug in fast_abs_path() on Win32 in which forward- and backward-slashes were confusing things. [demerphq]
• Failure to load the XS code in Cwd is no longer a fatal error (though failure to compile it is still a fatal error in the build process). This lets Cwd work under miniperl in the core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
• In the t/cwd.t test, don't enforce loading from blib/ if we're testing in the perl core. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]

3.04 Sun Feb 6 17:27:38 CST 2005

• For perls older than 5.006, the HAS_GETCWD symbol is not available, because it wasn't checked for in older Configure scripts when perl was built. We therefore just ask the user whether the getcwd() C function is defined on their platform when their perl is old. Maybe in the future we'll try to automate this. [Reported by several parties]
• Remove lib/ppport.h from the distribution, so that MakeMaker doesn't accidentally pick it up and install it as a lib file. [Jerry Hedden]
• Fixed a testing error on VMS that occurred when a user had read-access to the root of the current volume. [Craig A. Berry]

3.03 Fri Jan 21 21:44:05 CST 2005

• Fixed a testing error if the first file we find in the root directory is a symlink. [Blair Zajac]
• Added a test to make sure Cwd.pm is loaded from blib/ during testing, which seems to be an issue in some people's environments and makes it awfully hard to debug things on my end.
• Skip the perlabs_path() tests on Cygwin - they don't usually pass, and this function isn't used there anyway, so I decided not to push it. Let 'em use `cwd`.

3.02 Sun Jan 9 19:29:52 CST 2005

• Fixed a bug in which Cwd::abs_path() called on a file in the root directory returned strange results. [Bob Luckin]
• Straightened out the licensing details for the portion of the Cwd module that comes from BSD sources. [Hugo van der Sanden]
• Removed the prototype from perlabs_path() and the XS version of abs_path(), since all they seemed to be doing was causing people grief, and since some platforms didn't have them anyway.
• Fixed a testing bug in which sometimes the wrong version of Cwd (the version already installed on the user's machine) would get loaded instead of the one we're building & installing.
• Sometimes getdcwd() returns a lower-case drive letter, so don't require an upper-case letter in t/win32.t. [Jan Dubois]
• Fixed a memory leak in getdcwd() on win32. [Steve Hay]
• Added a copy of ppport.h to the distribution to aid compilation on older versions of perl. [Suggested by Charlie Root]
• Don't bother looking for a 'pwd' executable on MSWin32 - there won't be one, and looking for it can be extremely slow when lots of disks are mounted. [Several people, including Andrew Burke]
• Eliminated a multi-argument form of open() that was causing a syntax error on older versions of perl. [Fixed by Michael Schwern]
• The bug-fix changes for revision 0.90 of File::Spec somehow were lost when I merged it into the PathTools distribution. They're restored now. [Craig A. Berry]
• File::Spec->canonpath() will now reduce paths like '[d1.-]foo.dat' down to '[000000]foo.dat' instead of '[]foo.dat' or 'foo.dat'. This is in better accordance with the native filename syntax parser. [Craig A. Berry]
• In order to remove a recursive dependency (PathTools -> Test-Simple -> Test-Harness -> PathTools), we now include a copy of Test::More in the distribution. It is only used for testing, it won't be installed with the rest of the stuff.
• Removed some 5.6-isms from Cwd in order to get it to build with older perls like 5.005.
• abs_path() on Windows was trampling on $ENV{PWD} - fixed. [Spotted by Neil MacMullen]
• Added licensing/copyright statements to the POD in each .pm file. [Spotted by Radoslaw Zielinski]

3.01 Mon Sep 6 22:28:06 CDT 2004

• Removed an unnecessary and confusing dependency on File::Spec from the Makefile.PL and the Build.PL.
• Added a 'NAME' entry to the Makefile.PL, because otherwise it won't even begin to work. [Reported by many]

3.00 Thu Sep 2 22:15:07 CDT 2004

• Merged Cwd and File::Spec into a single PathTools distribution. This was done because the two modules use each other fairly extensively, and extracting the common stuff into another distribution was deemed nigh-impossible. The code in revision 3.00 of PathTools should be equivalent to the code in Cwd 2.21 and File::Spec 0.90.

Cwd 2.21 Tue Aug 31 22:50:14 CDT 2004

• Removed "NO_META" from the Makefile.PL, since I'm not building the distribution with MakeMaker anyway. [Rohan Carly]
• Only test perlabs_path() on platforms where it's expected to work (platforms with '/' as the directory separator). [Craig A. Berry]

Cwd 2.20 Thu Jul 22 08:23:53 CDT 2004

• On some implementations of perl on Win32, a memory leak (or worse?) occurred when calling getdcwd(). This has been fixed. [PodMaster]
• Added tests for getdcwd() on Win32.
• Fixed a problem in the pure-perl implementation perlabs_path() that caused a fatal error when run on plain files. [Nicholas Clark] To exercise the appropriate test code on platforms that wouldn't otherwise use perlabs_path(), run the tests with $ENV{PERL_CORE} or $ENV{TEST_PERL_CWD_CODE} set.

Cwd 2.19 Thu Jul 15 08:32:18 CDT 2004

• The abs_path($arg) fix from 2.18 didn't work for VMS, now it's fixed there. [Craig Berry]

Cwd 2.18 Thu Jun 24 08:22:57 CDT 2004

• Fixed a problem in which abs_path($arg) on some platforms could only be called on directories, and died when called on files. This was a problem in the pure-perl implementation perlabs_path().
• Fixed fast_abs_path($arg) in the same way as abs_path($arg) above.
• On Win32, a function getdcwd($vol) has been added, which gets the current working directory of the specified drive/volume. [Steve Hay]
• Fixed a problem on perl 5.6.2 when built with the MULTIPLICITY compile-time flags. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
• When looking for a `pwd` system command, we no longer assume the path separator is ':'.
• On platforms where cwd() is implemented internally (like Win32), don't look for a `pwd` command externally. This can greatly speed up load time. [Stefan Scherer]
• The pure-perl version of abs_path() now has the same prototype as the XS version (;$).

Cwd 2.17 Wed Mar 10 07:55:36 CST 2004

• The change in 2.16 created a testing failure when tested from within a path that contains symlinks (for instance, /tmp -> /private/tmp).

Cwd 2.16 Sat Mar 6 17:56:31 CST 2004

• For VMS compatibility (and to conform to Cwd's documented interface), in the regression tests we now compare output results to an absolute path. [Craig A. Berry]

Cwd 2.15 Fri Jan 16 08:09:44 CST 2004

• Fixed a problem on static perl builds - while creating Makefile.aperl, it was loading a mismatched version of Cwd from blib/ . [Reported by Blair Zajac]

Cwd 2.14 Thu Jan 8 18:51:08 CST 2004

• We now use File::Spec->canonpath() and properly-escaped regular expressions when comparing paths in the regression tests. This fixes some testing failures in 2.13 on non-Unix platforms. No changes were made in the actual Cwd module code. [Steve Hay]

Cwd 2.13 Fri Jan 2 22:29:42 CST 2004

• Changed a '//' comment to a '/* */' comment in the XS code, so that it'll compile properly under ANSI C rules. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
• Fixed a 1-character buffer overrun problem in the C code. [The BSD people]

Cwd 2.12 Fri Dec 19 17:04:52 CST 2003

• Fixed a bug on Cygwin - the output of realpath() should have been tainted, but wasn't. [Reported by Tom Wyant]

Cwd 2.10 Mon Dec 15 07:50:12 CST 2003

(Note that this release was mistakenly packaged as version 2.11, even though it had an internal $VERSION variable of 2.10. Not sure how THAT happened...)

• There was a dependency in the Makefile.PL on Module::Build, which isn't necessary. I've removed it.

Cwd 2.09 Thu Dec 11 20:30:58 CST 2003

• The module should now build & install using version 5.6 of perl.
• We now note a build-time dependency on version 0.19 of Module::Build, which is necessary because we don't use the standard lib/-based file layout. No version of Module::Build is required if you use the Makefile.PL, just if you use the Build.PL .
• Removed some gratuitous uses of 5.6-isms like our(), with the aim of backporting this module to perl 5.005.
• Simplified all code that autoloads Carp.pm and calls carp()/croak().
• Removed some redundant OS/2 code at the suggestion of Michael Schwern and Ilya Zakharevich.
• Make sure the correct version of Cwd.pm is loaded in the regression tests. [Sam Vilain]

Cwd 2.08 Wed Oct 15 20:56 CDT 2003

• Code extracted from perl 5.8.1 and packaged as a separate CPAN release by Ken Williams.

File::Spec 0.90 Tue Aug 31 22:34:50 CDT 2004

• On VMS, directories use vmspath() and files use vmsify(), so rel2abs() has to use some 'educated guessing' when dealing with paths containing slashes. [Craig A. Berry]

File::Spec 0.89 Sun Aug 29 19:02:32 CDT 2004

• Fixed some pathological cases on VMS which broke canonpath() and splitdir(). [Richard Levitte and Craig A. Berry]
• Fixed rel2abs() on VMS when passed a unix-style relative path. [Craig A. Berry]

File::Spec 0.88 Thu Jul 22 23:14:32 CDT 2004

• rel2abs() on Win32 will now use the new Cwd::getdcwd() function, so that things like rel2abs('D:foo.txt') work properly when the current drive isn't 'D'. This requires Cwd version 2.18. [Steve Hay]
• Got rid of a redundant double-backslash in a character class. [Alexander Farber]
• Added much markup to pod for enhanced readability. [Andy Lester]

File::Spec 0.87 Fri Dec 19 08:03:28 CST 2003

• With a one-line change in the tests, backported to perl 5.004. [Issue reported by Barry Kemble]

File::Spec 0.86 Fri Sep 26 10:07:39 CDT 2003

• This is the version released with perl 5.8.1. It is identical to the code in the File::Spec beta 0.85_03.

File::Spec 0.85_03 Mon Sep 15 09:35:53 CDT 2003

• On VMS, if catpath() receives volume specifiers in both its first two arguments, it will now use the volume in the first argument only. Previously it returned a non-syntactical result which included both volumes. This change is the same in spirit to the catpath() MacOS change from version 0.85_02.
• Fixed an abs2rel() bug on VMS - previously abs2rel('[t1.t2.t3]file','[t1.t2]') returned '[t3]file', now it properly returns '[.t3]file'.

File::Spec 0.85_02 Fri Sep 12 17:11:13 CDT 2003

• abs2rel() now behaves more consistently across platforms with the notion of a volume. If the volumes of the first and second argument (the second argument may be implicit) do not agree, we do not attempt to reconcile the paths, and simply return the first argument. Previously the volume of the second argument was (usually) ignored, resulting in sometimes-garbage output.
• catpath() on MacOS now looks for a volume element (i.e. "Macintosh HD:") in its first argument, and then its second argument. The first volume found will be used, and if none is found, none will be used.
• Fixed a problem in abs2rel() on Win32 in which the volume of the current working directory would get added to the second argument if none was specified. This might have been somewhat helpful, but it was contrary to the documented behavior. For example, abs2rel('C:/foo/bar', '/foo') used to return 'bar', now it returns 'C:/foo/bar' because there's no guarantee /foo is actually C:/foo .
• catdir('/', '../') on OS2 previously erroneously returned '//..', and now it returns '/'.

File::Spec 0.85_01 Thu Sep 11 16:18:54 CDT 2003

Working toward 0.86, the version that will be released with perl 5.8.1.

• The t/rel2abs2rel.t test now is a little friendlier about emitting its diagnostic debugging output. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
• We now only require() Cwd when it's needed, on demand. [Michael Schwern, Tels]
• Fixed some POD errors and redundancies in OS2.pm and Cygwin.pm. [Michael Schwern]
• The internal method cwd() has been renamed to _cwd(), since it was never meant for public use. [Michael Schwern]
• Several methods in File::Spec::Unix that just return constant strings have been sped up. catdir() has also been sped up there. [Tels]
• Several canonpath() and catdir() bugs on Win32 have been fixed, and tests added for them:

  catdir('/', '../') -> '\\' (was '\..') catdir('/', '..\\') -> '\\ (was '') canonpath('\\../') -> '\\' (was '') canonpath('\\..\\') -> '\\' (was '') canonpath('/../') -> '\\' (was '\..') canonpath('/..\\') -> '\\' (was '') catdir('\\', 'foo') -> '\foo' (was '\\foo')

• catpath($volume, $dirs, $file) on Mac OS now ignores any volume that might be part of $dirs, enabling catpath($volume, catdir(rootdir(), 'foo'), '') to work portably across platforms.

File::Spec 0.85 Tue Jul 22 11:31 CDT 2003

A bug-fix release relative to 0.84. I've forked development into a "stable" branch (this one) and a more aggressive branch (as yet unreleased), with an eye toward getting the stable features in perl 5.8.1.

• File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() returned 0 when it should have returned 1.
• Many cases in File::Spec::Win32->abs2rel() were broken, because of the way in which volumes were/weren't ignored. Unfortunately, part of the regression tests were broken too. Now, if the $path argument to abs2rel() is on a different volume than the $base argument, the result will be an absolute path rather than the broken relative path previous versions returned.
• Fixed a problem in File::Spec::Win32->canonpath, which was turning \../foo into "foo" rather than \foo
• Greatly simplified the code in File::Spec::Unix->splitdir().

File::Spec 0.84_01 Fri Jul 11 16:14:29 CDT 2003

No actual code changes, just changes in other distribution files

• Dependencies are now listed explicitly in the Makefile.PL and Build.PL scripts, as well as in the META.yml file.
• The t/abs2rel2abs.t test should now be more friendly about skipping on platforms where it can't run properly.

File::Spec 0.84 Wed Jul 9 22:21:23 CDT 2003

I (Ken)'ve taken the changes from bleadperl and created a new CPAN release from them, since they're pretty important changes. The highlights, from what I can tell, are listed here.

• A huge number of changes to File::Spec::Mac in order to bring it in line with the other platforms. This work was mostly/completely done by Thomas Wegner.
• The Epoc and Cygwin platforms are now supported.
• Lots of generically-applicable documentation has been taken from File::Spec::Unix and put in File::Spec.
• A Build.PL has been provided for people who wish to install via Module::Build.
• Some spurious warnings and errors in the tests have been eliminated. [Michael Schwern]
• canonpath() on File::Spec::Unix now honors a //node-name at the beginning of a path.
• Cwd.pm wasn't being loaded properly on MacOS. [Chris Nandor]
• Various POD fixups
• Several testing patches for the Epoc and Cygwin platforms [Tels]
• When running under taint mode and perl >= 5.8, all the tmpdir() implementations now avoid returning a tainted path.
• File::Spec::OS2 now implements canonpath(), splitpath(), splitdir(), catpath(), abs2rel(), and rel2abs() directly rather than inheriting them from File::Spec::Unix.
• Added 'SYS:/temp' and 'C:/temp' to the list of possible tmpdir()s on Win32.
• catfile() on Win32 and VMS will now automatically call canonpath() on its final argument.
• canonpath() on Win32 now does a much more extensive cleanup of the path.
• abs2rel() on Win32 now defaults to using cwd() as the base of relativity when no base is given.
• abs2rel() on Win32 now explicitly ignores any volume component in the $path argument.
• canonpath() on VMS now does []foo ==> foo, and foo.000000] ==> foo]. It also fixes a bug in multiple [000000.foo ==> [foo translations.
• tmpdir() on VMS now uses 'sys$scratch:' instead of 'sys$scratch'.
• abs2rel() on VMS now uses '000000' in both the path and the base.

File::Spec 0.82 Wed Jun 28 11:24:05 EDT 2000

• Mac.pm: file_name_is_absolute( '' ) now returns TRUE on all platforms
• Spec.pm: unbreak C<$VERSION = '0.xx'> to be C<$VERSION = 0.xx>, so underscores can be used when I want to update CPAN without anyone needing to update the perl repository.
• abs2rel, rel2abs doc tweaks
• VMS.pm: get $path =~ /\s/ checks from perl repository.
• Makefile.PL: added INSTALLDIRS => 'perl', since these are std. modules.
• Remove vestigial context prototypes from &rel2abs until some future arrives where method prototypes are honored.