ChangeLog for Net-Dict distribution

2.07 2003-05-06 neilb

• updated testsuite to refer to test.dict.org, and to reflect changes in the databases.

2.06 2002-03-23 neilb

• imported into my home machine's CVS repository
• updated email address

2.05 2001-04-25 neilb

• moved the inline documentation to a separate file Dict.pod
• added examples/portuguese.pl which illustrates accessing an english-portuguese dictionary. Example from Jose Joao Dias de Almeida <jj@di.uminho.pt>.

2.04 2001-04-23 neilb

• tidied up the code for auth(), removing debugging statements, etc.
• added documentation for the auth() method.
• renamed auth.t to auth.test - don't want this run as part of "make test": it needs my local config for testing. Do something about that later.

2.03 2001-04-23 neilb

• Added code which parses the welcome banner, to get msg id and optional capabilities.
• Added capabilities() method which returns a list of supported optional capabilities.
• Added has_capability() method for checking whether a capability is supported by the server.
• msg_id() method which returns the msg id from the server. This is used in the auth() method.
• Added auth() method, which uses Digest::MD5.
• Created a testsuite for auth - auth.t

2.02 2001-04-03 neilb

• Oops - forgot to add documentation for the status() method.

2.01 2001-04-03 neilb

• Added status() method to Net::Dict - returns the string returned by the DICT server when STATUS command is sent. Couple of test cases in t/connection.t
• When using the sample dict client, if no definition was found, then it will use Levenshtein or Soundex matching to look for close words. If the server doesn't support either strategy, then it just gives a basic error message.
• Updated the testsuite - new databases on dict.org meant that certain tests failed (eg where the date is included in the title of a database).

2.00 2001-04-01 neilb

• up'd the major version number - this will be the first public release version since changing the API for the constructor.
  • updated dict and tkdict to use the new method name
• Various documentation updates, including:
  • adding more to the descriptive section of the documentation.
  • reformatting the METHODS section
• strats() method renamed to strategies(). The old name is retained for backwards compatibility.
• Put a hack in the match.t test to supress unwanted output from printisa function in Net::Cmd.
• Removed the dependence on Net::Config from Makefile.PL

1.09 2001-03-26 neilb

• Send the CLIENT command to identify us before any other command is sent.
• Don't need to "use Net::Config" now
• dbTitle() checks whether the given DB name is valid. If it isn't, and debug is set to non-zero, then we now carp.
• Fixed a bug in define() - couldn't handle multi-word entries, eg:

  $dict->define("oboe d'amore"); didn't work as it should. The private _DEFINE method now quotes all arguments before passing them on, since having everything quoted is ok by RFC 2229.

• Fixed the same bug in match() method.
• Finished first pass at testsuite for define() method.

1.08 2001-03-22 neilb

• first version of testsuite - not the full set, but enough to get a few people to test and find out if it's sensible.
• Makefile.PL updated to get hostname and port for test server, it builds a config file in t/
• dbInfo now returns a string rather than an array of lines. This means it now matches the documentation!
• dbTitle() returns undef if you request a title of a non-existent database.
• Now checks for legality of arg names passed to constructor
• constructor requires hostname as first argument
• don't look for default list of hosts to try from Net::Config
• updated checking of arguments to constructor and error messages
• changed all self variables from $obj to $self
• improved wording of error messages when checking method arg lists
• private method CLIENT now takes arg, rather than hard-coding reference to package variable $CLIENTINFO
• Removed references in to the doc to ConfigFile and HTML arguments - they weren't actually supported - now mention this in the LIMITATIONS section
• Put an example of use of constructor with all arguments in the doc

1.07 2001-03-04 neilb

• Updated the one-line description in the NAME pod section. Previous one was a bit terse - that's what shows up on search.cpan.org, and similar places.

1.06 2001-03-04 neilb

• created tkdict, first cut at a Perl/Tk DICT client. The interface is currently very DICT protocol centric.
• added dbTitle() method, which is used to query the title string for a specific database.
• the description strings returned by dbs() and strats() were quoted with double strings (if that's what the server returned). Similarly every word returned by match() was quoted. Now the quotation marks are removed.

1.05

• added "dict", a sample client script
• strats() method was including a newline in the description of each strategy, unlike dbs(), which chomp()s the description. strats() now chomps as well!
• added Client option to Net::Dict, for CLIENT identifier string
• added AUTHOR and ABSTRACT_FROM keys to Makefile.PL

1.04

First version under maintenance of Neil Bowers

Added Makefile.PL, README, MANIFEST.

        Added examples/simple.pl, based on example submitted
        by Jose Joao Dias de Almeida <jj@di.uminho.pt>

        Modified in constructor for default port number,
        also from Jose.

1.03 - 1.01

Versions released by Dmitry Rubinstein <dimrub@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il>