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Last Update: Tue Sep 08 16:33:00 -0400 2009

1.6.2 - 4-Aug-2009

  • Now compatible with Ruby 1.9.x.
  • License changed to Artistic 2.0.
  • Added the Pathname.pwd method as a synonym for Pathname.new(Dir.pwd).
  • Modified Pathname#dirname so that you can specify a level that indicates how many levels up you want to retrieve. For example, if your path was ’/usr/local/bin’, then path.dirname(2) would return ’/usr’.
  • Now compatible with Ruby 1.9.x.
  • Bumped required version of the facade library to 1.0.4.

1.6.1 - 8-Nov-2008

  • Added the Pathname#[] method, which accepts an index, an index plus a length, or a range, and returns appropriate the path element(s).
  • Refactoring the platform checking in the test suite to use rbconfig instead of RUBY_PLATFORM.
  • More inline documentation examples.

1.6.0 - 13-July-2008

  • The facade for ftools (and ftools itself) has been removed. The ftools library is deprecated in favor of FileUtils.
  • PathnameError is now Pathname::Error.
  • Bug fix for Pathname#relative_path_from for MS Windows. Thanks go to an anonymous user for the spot.
  • Fixed a bug where frozen strings would raise an error on MS Windows.
  • The code is now -w clean.
  • Removed the C version as part of the release because it was just too difficult to maintain both versions. The C code remains in CVS, however.
  • Changed platform checking to use rbconfig instead of RUBY_PLATFORM to avoid potential issues with other Ruby implementation.

1.5.2 - 9-Mar-2007

  • Bug fix for the Pathname#realpath method where it was not handling recursive symlinks. The C version was also fixed, but it only affected platforms that don‘t have the realpath() function.
  • Added a test for recursive symlinks (for Solaris, anyway).
  • Updated the docs for Pathname#realpath.
  • Minor speed enhancements for the C version and the elimination of one (potential) segfault.
  • Added a ‘Future Plans’ section to the README.
  • Added a Rakefile. You can now build, clean, and test and install (both the pure Ruby and C versions).

1.5.1 - 28-Aug-2006

  • Added the Kernel#pn method as a shortcut for Pathname.new.
  • The Pathname#readlink now properly handles symbolic links. The ‘fix’ from 1.4.4 did not work.
  • The C extension uses your system‘s realpath() function for the Pathname#readlink method if it has one.
  • Added the ’/’ alias for ’+’. So, p1 / p2 is the same as p1 + p2.
  • The windows-pr package is now required on MS Windows.

1.5.0 - 17-Apr-2006

  • Better subclass handling, in that some methods that previously returned hardcoded Pathname.new now return self.class.new.
  • File URL‘s are now handled on Unix as well (using the ‘uri’ package).
  • Some comment changes/clarifications.
  • Added the PathnameError class to the pure Ruby version.

1.4.4 - 23-Mar-2006

  • If the path is a symbolic link the Pathname#realpath method now returns the absolute path of that link, i.e. the result of File.readlink (as a Pathname object).

1.4.3 - 3-Mar-2006

1.4.2 - 22-Feb-2006

  • Fixed the Pathname#relative_path_from method for Windows. This really only affected edge cases that you probably never saw anyway.
  • Added corresponding tests for Windows.

1.4.1 - 18-Feb-2006

1.4.0 - 19-Dec-2005

  • Added destructive and non-destructive methods for some methods - pstrip, pstrip!, undecorate, undecorate!, clean and clean!.
  • Added a C extension version of this package. You can use the C version instead of the pure Ruby version instead. See the README for more details.
  • Fixed bug in the root method where the result wasn‘t guaranteed to be a Pathname class.
  • Fixed bugs in Windows version where the receiver was inadvertantly modified in some cases, and added tests to check for this in the future.
  • Modified the Dir.glob facade so that it (temporarily) changes to the path directory, globs on that path, then returns to the original directory.
  • Added the bench_pathname.rb script to let you benchmark all Pathname methods.

1.3.1 - 21-Nov-2005

1.3.0 - 28-Oct-2005

  • Added the short_path and long_path methods for MS Windows.
  • Optimization for the ’+’ method on Unix.
  • Added some examples under the ‘examples’ directory.
  • More tests added and some minor changes to the test suite in general.

1.2.1 - 1-Sep-2005

  • Bug fix for the ascend and descend methods wrt Windows and UNC paths.
  • More tests added for ascend and descend methods.

1.2.0 - 29-Aug-2005

  • Added the ‘ascend’ and ‘descend’ methods.
  • Added corresponding test suite additions.

1.1.0 - 13-Jul-2005

  • Added the ‘find’ facade.

1.0.0 - 11-Jun-2005

  • Initial release

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