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File::Spec 0.86 released
From:
Ken Williams
Date:
September 26, 2003 09:05
Subject:
File::Spec 0.86 released
Message ID:
2023CE85-F03B-11D7-B022-003065F6D85A@mathforum.org
Hi,
With the release of perl 5.8.1, I also released File::Spec 0.86 to CPAN
with the identical code & tests to what's in 5.8.1.
The changes since 0.85 were extensive, and spread out over several
betas:
-Ken
CHANGES for 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.
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'.
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 '/'.
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 0.86 released
by Ken Williams