1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
4 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
6 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
8 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
13 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
14 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
16 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
18 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
20 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
23 - document the return value of the filter() method.
24 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
26 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
27 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
29 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
31 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
33 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
34 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
36 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
37 identify the file type match reality.
38 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
40 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
41 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
43 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
44 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
46 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
47 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
49 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
52 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
54 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
56 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
57 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
58 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
59 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
61 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
64 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
66 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
71 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
72 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
74 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
75 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
77 - make default text color non-transparent
78 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
80 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
81 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
83 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
85 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
87 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
88 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
90 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
92 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
95 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
96 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
98 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
99 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
101 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
104 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
107 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
108 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
110 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
112 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
113 initialized more efficiently.
114 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
116 - updated the Thanks list in README
117 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
119 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
120 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
122 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
123 perl could order it differently.
124 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
126 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
127 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
128 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
129 prefixed names on Win32.
130 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
132 - fix library detection with MSVC
134 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
135 them. Hopefully fixes:
136 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
138 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
141 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
143 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
145 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
147 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
148 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
151 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
152 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
153 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
156 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
158 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
161 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
164 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
165 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
166 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
167 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
168 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
169 then panic about the result.
171 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
172 callback, which should return true for success.
174 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
175 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
177 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
178 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
179 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
181 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
183 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
184 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
187 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
189 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
190 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
193 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
195 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
197 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
200 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
203 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
205 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
206 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
208 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
209 lead to an infinite loop.
213 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
215 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
218 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
223 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
224 checked when reading TIFF files.
225 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
227 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
228 failed image file read() or write().
229 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
231 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
232 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
233 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
235 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
237 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
239 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
240 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
241 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
243 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
244 modernize the tests a bit.
245 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
247 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
249 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
251 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
253 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
255 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
256 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
258 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
261 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
263 Massive types re-work:
265 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
266 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
268 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
270 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
271 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
272 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
273 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
275 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
276 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
277 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
278 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
280 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
281 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
283 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
287 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
288 values when writing a GIF image.
290 - removed dead callback read/write code
292 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
294 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
297 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
300 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
301 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
305 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
306 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
308 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
309 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
311 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
313 - add to_rgb_double() method.
314 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
316 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
317 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
319 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
320 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
322 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
324 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
325 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
327 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
329 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
330 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
331 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
333 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
338 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
339 failing on a Solaris smoker.
340 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
342 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
345 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
349 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
350 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
351 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
353 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
354 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
355 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
357 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
360 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
363 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
368 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
369 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
370 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
373 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
374 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
375 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
376 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
378 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
379 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
381 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
382 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
384 - improve the library detection summary
385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
387 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
388 downgrade the version in this file.
389 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
391 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
392 that option for the directories that would normally go in
393 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
394 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
396 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
399 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
401 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
402 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
403 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
405 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
406 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
408 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
409 work around limitations in PAR.
410 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
414 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
415 Revealed by new coverage tests.
417 - update the filter plugin documentation.
418 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
420 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
421 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
422 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
423 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
425 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
426 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
427 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
430 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
431 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
433 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
434 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
436 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
437 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
439 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
442 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
444 - Imager is now maintained in git
445 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
446 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
450 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
451 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
452 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
454 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
455 just a little darker.
457 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
458 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
459 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
460 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
462 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
464 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
467 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
470 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
471 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
472 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
473 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
475 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
477 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
478 images into a new image
479 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
483 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
485 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
486 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
487 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
489 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
490 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
492 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
493 included in the tarball. They are now included.
495 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
500 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
501 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
503 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
505 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
507 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
508 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
510 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
513 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
514 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
515 Uses Imager::Probe now.
516 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
518 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
519 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
523 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
526 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
528 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
530 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
531 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
532 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
534 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
537 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
539 Thanks to Justin Davis.
540 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
542 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
543 preparation for separate distribution.
544 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
546 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
548 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
552 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
553 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
554 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
555 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
557 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
558 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
559 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
561 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
562 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
563 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
564 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
567 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
568 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
570 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
571 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
572 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
573 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
575 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
578 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
579 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
581 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
583 - add resources to META.yml
585 Imager 0.76 - not released
590 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
592 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
593 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
595 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
600 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
601 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
603 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
604 the code run phase of library probing.
606 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
611 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
613 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
616 Test release for the new PNG probe.
618 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
619 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
620 format files and allows white space padding between files.
621 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
623 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
624 for separate distribution.
625 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
626 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
631 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
633 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
635 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
637 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
638 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
640 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
641 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
643 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
646 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
647 the probe can find the library for the test run.
648 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
650 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
653 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
658 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
659 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
661 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
662 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
664 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
669 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
670 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
671 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
673 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
674 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
676 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
678 - update the TIFF file format documentation
679 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
681 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
683 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
686 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
687 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
689 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
690 the incorrect colour.
692 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
695 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
697 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
700 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
701 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
704 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
707 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
708 it works with non-threaded perls
710 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
715 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
717 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
719 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
720 8-bit sample operations.
721 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
724 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
726 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
727 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
728 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
729 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
731 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
734 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
739 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
740 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
741 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
742 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
743 results or runtime exceptions.
744 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
747 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
752 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
755 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
757 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
759 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
760 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
761 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
762 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
763 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
766 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
771 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
772 that should be a parameter to plan().
774 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
775 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
777 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
779 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
782 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
784 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
788 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
789 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
791 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
792 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
795 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
797 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
799 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
804 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
806 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
808 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
811 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
813 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
814 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
817 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
818 set the extra channels in the image to 0
820 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
821 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
822 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
824 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
825 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
829 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
830 META.yml from scratch
831 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
833 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
834 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
835 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
836 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
838 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
843 - fix a packaging error
845 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
848 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
852 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
853 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
854 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
856 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
857 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
858 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
859 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
861 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
863 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
864 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
866 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
868 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
869 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
870 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
872 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
873 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
874 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
875 - group width methods and height methods
876 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
878 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
883 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
884 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
885 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
886 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
887 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
890 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
891 ignored for the screen height when present.
892 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
894 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
897 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
902 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
903 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
904 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
905 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
908 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
909 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
910 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
912 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
913 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
914 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
915 not a buffer overflow.
916 Added a check for the failure.
917 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
918 scale size parameters are a reference.
919 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
921 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
922 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
923 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
925 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
927 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
930 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
931 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
932 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
933 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
936 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
937 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
939 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
941 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
942 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
943 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
944 noalpha channels or back.
945 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
947 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
948 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
949 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
950 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
952 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
953 functions when filling.
954 Corrected normal combine mode.
955 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
956 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
957 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
958 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
960 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
962 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
963 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
964 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
965 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
967 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
968 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
969 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
970 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
972 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
973 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
974 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
975 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
979 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
981 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
983 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
984 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
985 compressible output files.
986 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
988 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
990 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
991 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
992 code, not intended for installation.
993 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
995 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
996 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
998 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
999 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1000 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1001 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1002 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1003 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1005 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1007 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1010 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1011 to /path under your home directory.
1012 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1014 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1015 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1016 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1017 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1018 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1020 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1021 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1022 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1023 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1027 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1029 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1031 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1032 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1033 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1035 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1036 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1038 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1039 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1041 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1043 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1046 - major TIFF support re-work
1047 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1049 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1050 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1052 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1055 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1056 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1058 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1060 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1062 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1066 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1069 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1070 alpha channel correctly.
1072 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1073 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1074 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1076 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1077 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1079 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1081 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1083 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1086 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1087 when scaling an animated gif
1088 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1092 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1093 perspective type transformations to work now.
1094 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1096 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1097 also fixed some other type warnings
1098 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1100 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1102 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1104 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1105 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1106 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1108 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1110 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1112 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1113 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1114 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1116 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1117 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1119 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1120 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1121 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1123 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1125 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1127 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1128 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1129 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1131 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1132 an unknown image file format.
1133 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1135 - improve the transform2() documentation
1136 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1138 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1139 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1141 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1142 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1143 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1146 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1149 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1150 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1152 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1154 - logging functions are now available in the API
1156 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1157 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1158 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1161 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1162 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1163 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1164 using Imager as a general image processor.
1165 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1169 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1170 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1171 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1172 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1174 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1175 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1177 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1178 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1179 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1182 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1184 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1186 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1187 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1189 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1190 image, but return a new image.
1191 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1193 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1194 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1195 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1197 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1198 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1200 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1201 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1203 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1208 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1209 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1211 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1212 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1213 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1214 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1216 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1219 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1221 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1224 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1226 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1230 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1231 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1232 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1234 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1235 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1236 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1238 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1240 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1241 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1242 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1244 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1245 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1247 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1248 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1250 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1251 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1252 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1253 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1254 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1255 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1256 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1258 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1261 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1263 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1264 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1265 this issue in the ticket below.
1266 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1267 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1268 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1269 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1271 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1274 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1276 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1278 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1280 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1281 contains only black and white
1283 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1285 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1288 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1292 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1293 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1294 resulted in a memory leak.
1295 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1297 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1298 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1300 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1301 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1303 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1305 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1306 even though the format doesn't require that
1308 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1309 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1311 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1312 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1313 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1315 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1316 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1317 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1319 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1320 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1322 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1325 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1327 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1329 There is one new feature:
1331 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1332 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1333 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1335 Several bugs were fixed:
1337 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1338 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1340 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1341 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1343 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1345 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1347 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1348 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1350 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1351 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1352 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1354 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1355 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1356 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1358 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1361 Win32 font driver fixes:
1363 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1364 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1366 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1367 advance width they would be clipped
1370 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1373 This is primarily a feature release:
1375 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1376 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1377 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1378 blurry results than normal.
1379 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1381 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1383 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1385 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1386 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1387 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1388 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1389 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1390 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1391 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1393 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1394 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1396 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1398 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1399 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1401 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1403 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1404 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1406 - minor documentation fixes
1409 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1412 This is a bugfix release.
1414 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1415 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1417 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1420 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1423 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1424 fixes, new features:
1426 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1428 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1430 - add POD coverage tests
1432 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1433 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1434 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1436 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1437 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1438 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1443 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1444 calculating the advance width.
1445 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1447 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1448 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1449 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1452 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1453 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1454 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1455 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1456 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1458 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1459 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1461 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1463 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1464 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1466 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1469 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1472 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1474 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1476 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1478 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1480 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1482 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1485 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1488 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1489 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1490 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1491 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1493 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1494 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1496 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1497 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049