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bleadperl 5.8 has 'older' Text::Soundex (or Text::Soundex confusions) #5741

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p5pRT opened this issue Jul 17, 2002 · 4 comments
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bleadperl 5.8 has 'older' Text::Soundex (or Text::Soundex confusions) #5741

p5pRT opened this issue Jul 17, 2002 · 4 comments

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p5pRT commented Jul 17, 2002

Migrated from rt.perl.org#15010 (status was 'resolved')

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p5pRT commented Jul 17, 2002

From dcd@tc.fluke.com

Created by dcd@tc.fluke.com

I noticed that Text​::Soundex that comes in bleadperl is
version 1.01, but
  perl -e 'use CPAN; CPAN​::Shell->r;'
reports that a newer version (2.20)
can be found in M/MA/MARKM/Text-Soundex-2.20.tar.gz

bleadperls version is from
  Mike Stok <Mike.Stok@​meiko.concord.ma.us>, 2 March 1994

version 2.20 on CPAN contains the declaration
"This version directly supercedes the version of Text​::Soundex that can be
found in the core from perl5.005_02 and down. (This version is a drop-in
replacement)"
  and it
  "is a full re-write of the 1.0 engine by Mark Mielke."
  Mark Mielke <markm@​nortelnetworks.com>
  "The goal was for speed... and this was achieved. There is an optional
  XS module which can be used completely transparently by the user
  which offers a further speed increase of a factor of more than 7.5X."

Shouldn't this be resolved as

a) add a note that perl 5.8 has chosen to not use the latest Text​::Soundex
  from CPAN, or

b) integreate Mark's newer Text​::Soundex

Perl Info 

Flags:
    category=library
    severity=low

Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:

Configured by dcd at Tue Jul 16 22:07:02 PDT 2002.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0 patch 17584) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.19-rc1, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux dd 2.4.19-rc1 #1 mon jun 24 14:32:06 pdt 2002 i686 '
    config_args='-Dmksymlinks -Dinstallusrbinperl -Uversiononly -Dusedevel -Doptimize=-O3 -g -de -Dcf_email=dcd@tc.fluke.com'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O3 -g',
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='egcs-2.91.66.1 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.so.5.4.44, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    DEVEL17573


@INC for perl v5.8.0:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.7.3
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .


Environment for perl v5.8.0:
    HOME=/home/dcd
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/dcd/bin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/samba:/home/hobbes/tools/scripts:/home/hobbes/tools/linux:/usr0/hobbes/tools/scripts:/usr0/dcd/bin:/apps/general/bin:/usr/public
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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p5pRT commented Apr 15, 2003

From @jhi

Unless Hugo van der Sanden (the current development pumpking) decides
that the soundex algorithm is useful enough to introduce a new XS extension
to the core, the newer Text​::Soundex will not be in the core. My personal take
on this is that soundex is not that good (I'm biased; I find it too English-centric.)
Also, unless one is comparing insane amounts of text, I don't see what an XS
implementation buys. The current soundex implementation is fast enough for
most purposes. Says I.

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p5pRT commented Apr 15, 2003

@jhi - Status changed from 'new' to 'stalled'

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p5pRT commented Jul 28, 2006

@smpeters - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'resolved'

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