From 44540dee81862456fcc4eac4a879480ffd89fc90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Rolsky Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:52:42 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] v0.040001 --- Changes | 2 ++ README | 30 +++++++++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index f7dba9a..df3d1a8 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ {{$NEXT}} +0.040001 2014-01-14 + - Updated the docs to mention the MaxMind::DB::Reader::XS module. - Renamed the languages constructor parameter to locales for both the Client diff --git a/README b/README index 1562fd2..38b1f84 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,17 +2,17 @@ NAME GeoIP2 - Perl API for MaxMind's GeoIP2 web services and databases VERSION - version 0.040000 + version 0.040001 DESCRIPTION - This distribution provides an API for the GeoIP2 web services (as - documented at ) and - downloadable databases. + This distribution provides an API for the GeoIP2 web services + and databases + . The API also works + with the free GeoLite2 databases + . See GeoIP2::WebService::Client for details on the web service client API - and GeoIP2::Database::Reader for the database API. The only downloadable - database currently available is GeoLite2 City. See - for details. + and GeoIP2::Database::Reader for the database API. BETA NOTE This is a beta release. The API may change before the first production @@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ BETA NOTE You may find information on the GeoIP2 beta release process on our website . +SPEEDING UP DATABASE READING + This module only depends on the pure Perl implementation of the MaxMind + database reader (MaxMind::DB::Reader). If you install the libmaxminddb + library () and + MaxMind::DB::Reader::XS, then the XS implementation will be loaded + automatically. The XS implementation is approximately 60x faster than + the pure Perl implementation. + INTEGRATION WITH GEONAMES GeoNames () offers web services and downloadable databases with data on geographical features around the @@ -65,9 +73,9 @@ PERL VERSION SUPPORT accept patches to support any version of Perl before 5.8. The data returned from the GeoIP2 web services includes Unicode - characters in several languages. This may expose bugs in earlier - versions of Perl. If Unicode support is important to you, we recommend - that you use the most recent version of Perl available. + characters in several locales. This may expose bugs in earlier versions + of Perl. If Unicode support is important to you, we recommend that you + use the most recent version of Perl available. SUPPORT Please report all issues with this code using the GitHub issue tracker @@ -88,7 +96,7 @@ CONTRIBUTOR Graham Knop COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE - This software is copyright (c) 2013 by MaxMind, Inc.. + This software is copyright (c) 2014 by MaxMind, Inc.. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.