Revision history for Perl extension WWW::Gazetteer::Heavens

0.18 Fri Jan 30 01:27:54 CET 2009

• provide a correct Makefile.PL
• reformatted bits of the documentation

0.17 Thu Jan 29 02:46:27 CET 2009

• Bugfix: "ß" is followed by "t" when dividing a '*' query (reported by Henry Ayoola as RT ticket #42709, now closed)
• reorganized the distribution as a modern one, with a lib/ directory and a Build.PL script

0.16 Sat Sep 16 22:25:50 CEST 2006

• moved all pod documentation at the end of files
• added a simple example script (which is the main use of the module)
• add a license to META.yml

0.15 Mon Mar 28 16:08:17 CEST 2005

• the sub-query algorithm is explained
• tests for pod and pod coverage

0.14 Mon Sep 15 14:12:04 CEST 2003

• Bugfix: handle a query string such as zz* correctly

0.13 Mon Sep 15 00:23:11 CEST 2003

• Bugfix: prevent a foo? query string to become foo?? in the next iteration

0.12 Sun Sep 14 12:38:29 CEST 2003

• Bugfix: a search string with an accented letter could create an infinite loop

0.11 Sat Sep 13 23:59:56 CEST 2003

• Buenavista, MX is a special case: there are 200 cities with the same exact name in Mexico. The module now (badly) handles the 200 cities limitation of the web site

0.10 Sat Sep 13 11:46:48 CEST 2003

• add the iso code attribute
• the heavens-above database a changed a bit, to one of the tests had to be changed

0.09 Fri Feb 7 00:49:49 CET 2003

• The heavensabove.com now gives a 500 error when a non-existing country code is used

0.08 Thu Oct 24 13:33:31 CEST 2002

• a correct User-Agent string
• sleep 3 between retries

0.07 Tue Oct 22 17:43:33 CEST 2002

• interface change to conform to WWW::Gazetteer's city, country order
• fetch() becomes find() (but remains)
• should be compatible with WWW::Gazetteer 0.20
• find() and friends return an arrayref in scalar context

0.06 Tue Oct 19 11:40:43 CEST 2002

• the query '*' now works correctly
• some countries do not have a 'region' field at all
• elevation is simple number, in meters ('508 m' => 508)

0.05 Thu Oct 17 14:40:22 CEST 2002

• allow a broken connection to be retried (default 5)
• new() accept arguments to override defaults

0.04 Thu Oct 17 09:07:01 CEST 2002

• handle requests with 200+ answers, that use a single *
• correct PREREQ_PM (HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::Form)
• eg/city.pl now prints the county for US cities

0.03 Wed Oct 16 12:19:29 CEST 2002

• correct the city structure for the US cities (county)
• more documentation (callbacks)

0.02 Wed Oct 16 00:57:44 CEST 2002

• handle network errors (croak)
• a simple example script: eg/city.pl

0.01 Tue Oct 15 16:12:16 CEST 2002

• first published version