NAME

CHANGES.pod

SYNOPSIS

Revision history for Perl module Text::Similarity

DESCRIPTION

0.04

Released March 21, 2008 (all changes by TDP)

  • Introduced tests for text_compare.pl (t/text_compare.t) - added support for os neutral file reads via FILE::SPEC in this and other .t files.

  • Introduced tests for getOverlaps (t/overlaps.t)

  • Improved synopsis examples to show how to pass options via arguments in hashes

  • Clarified that stemming and compounding are not currently supported disabled compfile option in text_compare.pl

  • Made file handling in text_compare more robust so that when a file does not exist an error message is given and failure is immediate

  • Changed method of passing constants in test cases from (eg.) "Text::Similarity::NORMALIZE" to "normalize" in order to support backwards compatability with perl 5.6.

  • Introduce normalize and no-normalize tests for getSimilarity

  • Fix Similarity.pm Synopsis example not to use files in /t that are no longer available

0.03

Released March 20, 2008 (all changes by TDP)

  • fix divide by zero errors reported on cpan by cernst at esoft.com, who also provided fix

  • update test cases to improve coverage of partial matches and no matches

  • update synopsis examples so they can be run via cut and paste

  • improve README content to make it more descriptive

  • introduce /doc directory for pod of INSTALL README and CHANGES

  • introduce 'use constant' to support perl 5.6

0.02

Released October 16, 2004, all changes by JM

  • fixed overlap finding & added new module Text::OverlapFinder

  • improved command-line interface

  • improved documentation and help messages

  • added support for a stoplist

0.01

Released September 23, 2004, all changes by JM

  • original version; created by h2xs 1.23 with options -b 5.6.0 -A -X Text::Similarity

AUTHORS

Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
tpederse at d.umn.edu

This document last modified by : $Id: CHANGES.pod,v 1.9 2008/03/21 22:26:34 tpederse Exp $

SEE ALSO

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Ted Pedersen

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

Note: a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License is available on the web at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html and is included in this distribution as FDL.txt.

2 POD Errors

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'=item' outside of any '=over'

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You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'