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+2.8: 2005-10-19
+ Change license to BSD. Tweak Python to use hashlib rather than
+ the deprecated md5 module. Suppress some compiler warnings.
+
+2.7: 2005-01-07
+ Improvements to regression-test machinery.
+ Document the FAQ about comparing a tree to itself.
+
+2.6: 2004-08-20
+ Ignore .svn files and and SVN subdirectories. Typo fixes on manual page.
+
+2.5: 2004-07-07
+ Alan Burlinson's tweaks to ease porting to SunOS. Emil Sit's
+ dramatic speedup for SCF-file reads. Fix incorrect statistics
+ generation with filterator -mfF options -- counts were too high.
+ Documentation fixes.
+
+2.4: 2004-03-11
+ Fixed strtok() bug apparently introduced by C library change.
+ Added -n, -f, and -F options to filterator.
+
+2.3: 2003-12-29
+ Source RPMs no longer depend on myversion symbol.
+ New -N option style supports multiple normalizers.
+ Fix a bug that might have caused a SEGV on really large shreds.
+
+2.2: 2003-12-24
+ Better error reporting in comparator.py.
+ Fix a packaging error.
+
+2.1: 2003-08-19
+ Refactored code to make it possible to plug in new feature analyzers.
+ Logic for handling trailing blank lines in files works slightly better.
+
+2.0: 2003-08-18
+ Now uses custom 8-byte digest function suggested by Ron Rivest, the inventor
+ of MD5. The new function is faster and about halves the size of SCF files.
+ This format change is not compatible with 1.x versions.
+ There is a new -m option to set the minimum span size to be output.
+ The filterator -s option has been changed to -m to match it.
+ filterator is now a wrapper around comparator.py, a loadable Python
+ module which can be used to write other report generators.
+ Significance filtering for C and shell is now done within comparator
+ itself, and is accordingly much faster.
+ FreeBSD port patches from Warren Toomey.
+
+1.6: 2003-09-15
+ Regression-test production now in place.
+ Second application of qsort trick, for significant speedups on
+ trees with many common matches.
+ New -v option to enable progress messages; they're off by default.
+
+1.5: 2003-09-12
+ Fix bug in -r option.
+ Capture trailing braces (as on C functions) in chunks even when they are
+ ignored for comparison purposes.
+ Range reports now include the line length of the file.
+ Documentation improvements.
+
+1.4: 2003-09-12
+ Fix brown-paper-bag bug in reduction logic, introduced when I optimized it.
+ SCF-B format now includes codebase size so we can compute percentages.
+ filterator now generates a trailer containing percentage overlaps.
+
+1.3: 2003-09-12
+ -C now implies -w.
+ A new -r option strips comments.
+ Code is cleaned up to pass gcc -Wall.
+ filterator can now perform significance checks on shreds from shellscripts.
+ There is now a progress meter while making SCF files.
+ The logic for merging ranges has been seriously speed-tuned and is
+ 66% faster. This code is O(n**2) on the number of common shreds and
+ is the bottleneck on large trees.
+
+1.2: 2003-09-10
+ Add -C option; -w wasn't good enough to make indent-style difference
+ invisible by itself.
+
+1.1: 2003-09-09
+ Fix silly division by zero error. Add COPYING file.
+ Add -s option to filterator and make it ignore form feeds in filtered mode.
+
+1.0: 2003-09-07
+ Initial build.
--- /dev/null
+# This is not a real Debian control file, though the syntax is compatible.
+# It's project metadata for the shipper tool
+
+Package: comparator
+
+Description: Rapidly find common code segments in large source trees.
+ comparator and filterator are a pair of programs for identifying common
+ or closely matching segments in source trees. They are fast enough to
+ gove near-instant results even on trees running to millions of lines each.
+
+#XBS-Gitorious-URL: https://gitorious.org/comparator
+
+#XBS-Ohloh-URL: http://www.ohloh.net/p/comparator
+
+XBS-Destinations: freecode
+
+Homepage: http://www.catb.org/~esr/comparator
+
+#XBS-Logo: comparator-logo.png
+
+XBS-Project-Tag-List: source code, forensics, copyright
+