PathTools

Changes for version 3.02 - 2005-01-09

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 _perl_abs_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]