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=head1 HISTORY

CPAN::Nearest was created as a module for people making tools like
C<cpan>, C<cpanm>, C<pm-uninstall>, and anything else which needs to
use the CPAN packages list. It was inspired by the helpful "git"
version control system, which provides suggestions for spelling
mistakes. CPAN::Nearest was written to be fast enough for practical
use by writing it mostly in C with an XS binding to Perl.

It was the precursor of L<Text::Fuzzy> by the same author (Ben
Bullock). In version 0.13, all of the search functionality of
CPAN::Nearest was moved to Text::Fuzzy and the XS parts of the module
were removed, and the package-list reading part rewritten in Perl. The
standalone C program was also removed from the distribution in version
0.13, and its documentation was deleted in version 0.14.



=head1 AUTHOR