Revision history for Perl extension Path::Class. 0.18 - Sun Dec 20 10:11:02 CST 2009 - Similar to the next() bug for files/directories named "0" or "0.0" in the previous release, the children() and recurse() methods have now been fixed in the same way. [spotted by ARTHAS, MSISK] 0.17 - Sun Jun 14 21:42:16 2009 - dir(undef) now returns undef rather than the rootdir, because undef was probably a mistake by the caller, and the rootdir is too scary a default. [Suggested by John Goulah] - Temporary files during testing are now created in the system temp directory, rather than somewhere in t/ . See RT #31382. [Suggested by Alex Page] - Added is_relative() as the obvious complement to the existing is_absolute() method. - Added a resolve() method to clean up paths much more thoroughly than cleanup(), e.g. resolving symlinks, collapsing foo/../bar sections, etc. [Suggested by David Garamond] - Fixed a problem in which a file/directory called "0" or "0.0" would end a loop prematurely when using the idiom 'while($x = $dir->next) {...}'. See http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29374 [Spotted by Daniel Lo] - Fixed an exists($array[$i]) that prevented compatibility with perl 5.005. - Moved the repository from my personal CVS repo to Google Code. 0.16 - Sun Dec 24 20:29:40 2006 - Added a $dir->contains($thing) method that indicates whether $dir actually contains $thing on the filesystem. - Fixed a typo in the synopsis for Path::Class::Dir - 'MacOS' should have been 'Mac' in the example for foreign_dir(). [Chris Dolan] - subsumes() was not respecting the 'foreign'-ness of its arguments, now it does. [Chia-liang Kao] - Added a couple of TODO tests (currently failing) for translating MacOS paths to Unix (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=16613) 0.15 Thu Dec 15 20:11:38 CST 2005 - Fixed an important edge case in subsumes() - subsumes('/', '/foo') (and its equivalent on other platforms) was returning false, but should have been true. [Reported by Chia-liang Kao] 0.14 Thu Nov 17 22:16:13 CST 2005 - Silence a warning caused by $dir1->subsumes($dir2) when $dir2 subsumes $dir1. [Chia-liang Kao] - Work around a File::Spec->abs2rel bug when its two arguments are the same. It returns an empty string rather than curdir(), so in Path::Class, dir()->absolute->relative returned '/' rather than '.' (or their equivalent on non-unix platforms. [Spotted by David Golden] 0.13 Mon Aug 22 22:36:15 CDT 2005 - Added a recurse() method to Path::Class::Dir, which provides a nice alternative to using File::Find. - Added a children() method to Path::Class::Dir, which returns the entries of a directory as Path::Class objects. - Added touch() to Path::Class::File. 0.12 Tue Jun 28 16:27:38 EDT 2005 - You can now chomp while you slurp. [Suggested by Smylers] - Added some notes about how to use Path::Class in a cross-platform way. - Added a remove() method for both files and directories. - Added a subsumes() method to Path::Class::Dir. - We now require File::Spec version 0.87 (previously we required 0.86), because it fixes a few important bugs. - Fixed some VMS testing bugs. [Abe Timmerman] - Corrected a couple typos in the documentation for Path::Class::File where it mistakenly listed the package as Path::Class::Dir. [Ron Savage] 0.11 Mon May 16 20:06:38 CDT 2005 - Fixed a documentation bug in Path::Class::File - open() calls IO::File->new(), not IO::File->open(). [Smylers] - Improved the semantics for dir_list() in a scalar context. It now has a much higher DWIM coefficient. [Suggested by Smylers] - Added the stat() and lstat() methods to the Path::Class::Dir class; previously they were only in the Path::Class::File class. [Suggested by Smylers] - We now require at least version 0.87 of File::Spec, rather than 0.86, because 0.87 fixed some bugs and idiosyncracies in how Windows path names are handled. [Chris Dolan] 0.10 Wed Apr 6 17:04:45 CDT 2005 - Fixed a bug in relative() that would ignore the optional argument if the given file/dir was already specified as relative. - Fixed a typo in the documentation - I wrote Path::Class::mkdir() and Path::Class::rmtree() where I meant File::Path::mkdir() and File::Path::rmtree(). 0.09 Tue Apr 5 20:42:20 CDT 2005 - Added the dir_list() method, which gives the user direct access to the list of directories that makes up a Path::Class::Dir object (NEEDS DOCUMENTATION). [Suggested by Smylers] - Documented the behavior of $dir->next() when the directory doesn't exist or is unreadable (it dies). [Smylers] - Fixed a bug that could result in extra backslashes between the volume and path (such as C:\\Foo\Bar). [Smylers] - Added the is_dir() method, which is a simple way to tell the difference between a file and a directory. [Suggested by Smylers] 0.08 Tue Dec 28 08:26:56 CST 2004 - Fixed a typo in the module name in the docs. [Chris Dolan] - Added a copyright statement to the docs, for some reason it was missing. [Spotted by Chris Dolan] 0.07 Wed Jun 30 15:31:35 CDT 2004 - Fixed a bug in dir("foo/")->parent and file("foo/bar")->dir. [Spotted by Sterling Hanenkamp] 0.06 Fri Mar 26 22:20:32 CST 2004 - Added documentation for $dir->next(), which was for some reason missing. - Simplified a little internal code in $dir->next(). - Added the slurp(), openr(), and openw() methods to Path::Class::File. 0.05 Mon Jan 19 22:36:29 CST 2004 - Added a parent() method to Path::Class::File, which helps in those cases where the distinction between a file and a directory isn't significant. [Paul Hoffman] - Added a basename() method to Path::Class::File. [Richard Evans] 0.04 Thu Jan 1 22:47:18 CST 2004 - Added several useful methods for interacting with the filesystem, such as $file->open(), or $dir->mkpath(). - file() and dir() are now exported by default when loading Path::Class. [Michael Schwern] - Fixed a problem that happened when interacting with the File::Spec that comes with perl 5.6.0. Names weren't being stringified properly. [Michael Schwern] - Fixed a test failure on Win32 (from line 71 of t/01-basic.t). [reported by Murat Ünalan] - Rewrote general description of Path::Class in the documentation [suggested by Joshua Keroes] 0.03 Wed Jul 9 09:32:52 CDT 2003 - D'oh! Forgot to add the t/02-foreign.t test to the MANIFEST. - The way I was faking out File::Spec to pretend it's on a Unix system during testing wasn't working. [Reported by DH] 0.02 Tue Jul 8 14:51:24 CDT 2003 - Added the capability to work with paths from other systems, see 'foreign' in the docs. - Now depends on File::Spec::Mac 1.3, since 1.2 was pretty broken. - relative() and absolute() methods can now take an optional argument to use as the base of relativity. 0.01 Wed Mar 12 18:17:04 CST 2003 - original version; created by h2xs 1.21 with options -XA -n Path::Class