version 0.008; 2018-01-19
* bugfix: in the ->new_from_local_source constructor, don't get confused
by a source directory whose supplied name begins with "-"
* when extracting data file names from the Olson makefile, handle
changes in the makefile rules from version 2018b onwards
* when downloading database version 2016g or later, use the new
tzdb.tar.lz rather than tz{code,data}.tar.gz
* don't put downloaded tarballs in the same directory as the unpacked
Olson source
* when downloading database version 2016g or later, check PGP signatures
on downloaded files
* when downloading database version 2016g or later, check that the
downloaded file is the version we think we're downloading, by looking
at the "version" file in the tarball
* when downloading database versions prior to 2016g, check the SHA-512
hash of the downloaded files against known hashes, except for a
handful of files for which no hash is currently known
* correctly handle the desynchronised version numbers for code and
data parts of the database that occurred from 1993 to 2012
* handle the special-case filename for version 2006b of the code part
of the database
* when downloading a specified version of the database, request the
correct files directly, rather than listing the whole directory
* when determining the latest version of the database, request listing
of only recent database distributions, rather than listing the
whole directory
* fix the style of an error message
* take full advantage of GNU tar and GNU make facilities, having
started to rely on GNU tar to handle tzdb.tar.lz
* restructure calls to external commands to avoid the need for shell
quoting
version 0.007; 2017-10-23
* when extracting data file names from the Olson makefile, handle the
new way in which the data file names are handled there from version
2017c onwards
* check for required Perl version at runtime
* in documentation, use four-column indentation for all verbatim
material
* in META.{yml,json}, point to public bug tracker
* support author test through Build interface
version 0.006; 2017-07-17
* when invoking make in the Olson distribution directory, suppress
rebuilding of the version file, to cope with copies of the
distribution in which timestamps have been mangled, or which are git
working directories for projects other than the Olson database, or
from which some version-contributing files (such as the copyrighted
ones) have been omitted
version 0.005; 2017-07-16
* bugfix: require bugfixed version of Net::FTP
* accept non-ASCII UTF-8 strings in iso3166.tab, seen from tzdata
version 2015e onwards, consequently increasing the Perl version
requirement to 5.8
* avoid unescaped brace in regexp, which is deprecated starting in
Perl 5.21.1
* in documentation, indicate that the ->new_from_local_source
constructor accepts multiple attribute parameters
* new author test to try out the module's actual functionality (not
automatically run due to dependence on network and on the content
of the latest Olson distribution)
* no longer include a Makefile.PL in the distribution
version 0.004; 2012-07-20
* switch to new official repository, <ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/>
version 0.003; 2012-03-19
* new constructor ->new_from_local_source to support working with
locally-modified Olson source
* convert .cvsignore to .gitignore
version 0.002; 2011-10-09
* with elsie down due to legal action, use instead the new de facto
canonical repository, <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>
* new methods ->code_version and ->data_version to retrieve the version
numbers of the two parts of the distribution independently
* abandon support for HTTP-based archive, instead using the archive
on the same FTP site as the current version (which munnari supplies
but elsie didn't)
* handle archived versions with two-digit year and those compressed with
compress rather than gzip
* include META.json in distribution
* add MYMETA.json to .cvsignore
version 0.001; 2010-11-18
* accept a tzcode version number that is lower than the available
tzdata version number on elsie
version 0.000; 2010-08-31
* initial released version