NAME

CHANGES - Revision history for Text::Similarity

DESCRIPTION

0.05

Released April 4, 2008 (all changes by TDP)

• Made it possible for users to input strings directly via text_compare.pl and getSimilarityStrings. Previously it was only possible to directly measure the similarity of files, but now strings can be measured.

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 1.10 2008/04/04 17:28:35 tpederse Exp $

SEE ALSO

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Ted Pedersen

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