                          Locale-KeyedText
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by Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

CONTENTS

* Preface
* Keeping Up To Date
* Dependencies
* Support
* License And Copyright
* Acknowledgements

PREFACE

This distribution features the Perl 5 module named "Locale::KeyedText"; see the
file lib/Locale/KeyedText.pm for the main documentation, which is in POD
format.  The distribution also includes a ChangeLog file to say what changes
already happened, and a TODO file to say what changes have yet to happen.  The
file INSTALL should help with installation issues.  Read below for how to get
support or keep up to date, know this distribution's dependencies, or read the
credits or copyright and license.

KEEPING UP TO DATE

My module set is constantly under development.  The canonical copies are all
linked to through my website, "http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/", on the page called
"Perl Libraries I Made" (name subject to change).

For those of you that are interested in the bleeding edge, I now have a public
Subversion repository at "http://svn.utsl.gen.nz/trunk/Rosetta/"; this
repository contains all of my newer modules (whose problem domain is databases),
but not my older modules (which are not about databases).

You can download slightly older but more stable versions of all of my modules in
standard tarred and gzipped distributions, either from the public CPAN archives,
"http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DU/DUNCAND/", or from my own web server,
"http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/d/perl/".

CPAN also extracts the POD from modules and maintains that documentation in an
organized and searchable fashion.  Their main search site is
"http://search.cpan.org/", and my own DUNCAND author page is
"http://search.cpan.org/~duncand/"; distributions are also there.

You can download my oldest distributions from BACKPAN, at
"http://history.perl.org/backpan/authors/id/D/DU/DUNCAND/", or from my web
server, at "http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/d/perl/archives/".

DEPENDENCIES

This distribution requires any version of Perl 5.x.y that is at least 5.8.1.

It also requires the Perl module 'version', which would
conceptually be built-in to Perl, but isn't, so it is on CPAN instead.

This distribution also requires Test::More for its test suite, and that module
is bundled with Perl.

SUPPORT

Currently I don't have any support arranged with other people, lists, newsgroups,
or otherwise.  Feel free to ask me if you can't figure things out on your own, or
another person whom you know has used this.  I may start a mailing list for 
support issues later, so that users of my modules can help each other with them.

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

This file is part of the Locale::KeyedText library.

Locale::KeyedText is Copyright (c) 2003-2005, Darren R. Duncan.  All rights
reserved.  Address comments, suggestions, and bug reports to
perl@DarrenDuncan.net, or visit http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/ for more
information.

Locale::KeyedText is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as published by
the Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org/); either version 2.1 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.  You should have received a copy
of the LGPL as part of the Locale::KeyedText distribution, in the file named
"LGPL"; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St,
Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

Any versions of Locale::KeyedText that you modify and distribute must carry
prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any
changes, in addition to preserving this original copyright notice and other
credits. Locale::KeyedText is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the LGPL for more details.

While it is by no means required, the copyright holders of Locale::KeyedText
would appreciate being informed any time you create a modified version of
Locale::KeyedText that you are willing to distribute, because that is a
practical way of suggesting improvements to the standard version.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Besides myself as the creator ...

* 2004.07.26 - Thanks to Jason Martin (jhmartin@toger.us) for suggesting a
feature, along with providing sample usage and patch code, that supports
embedding of Template class packages in the same files as program code, rather
than requiring separate files.

* 2005.03.21 - Thanks to Stevan Little (stevan@iinteractive.com) for feedback
towards improving this module's documentation, particularly towards using a much
shorter SYNOPSIS, so that it is easier for newcomers to understand the module at
a glance, and not be intimidated by large amounts of detailed information.

FIN

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