=head1 NAME

CHANGES - Revision history for Text::Similarity

=head1 DESCRIPTION

=item 0.05

Released April 4, 2008 (all changes by TDP)

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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. 

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=item 0.04

Released March 21, 2008 (all changes by TDP)

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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.

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Introduced tests for getOverlaps (t/overlaps.t)

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

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

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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

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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.

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Introduce normalize and no-normalize tests for getSimilarity

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

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=item 0.03 

Released March 20, 2008 (all changes by TDP)

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

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

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

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improve README content to make it more descriptive

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introduce /doc directory for pod of INSTALL README and CHANGES

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introduce 'use constant' to support perl 5.6

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=item 0.02 

Released October 16, 2004, all changes by JM

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fixed overlap finding & added new module Text::OverlapFinder

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improved command-line interface

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improved documentation and help messages

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added support for a stoplist

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=item 0.01 

Released September 23, 2004, all changes by JM

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

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=head1 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 $

=head1 SEE ALSO

=head1 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 L<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html> and is included in
this distribution as FDL.txt.

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