README for DDC::Concordance (formerly known as ddc-perl) ABSTRACT DDC::Concordance - Query and wrapper utilities for the ddc-concordance search engine REQUIREMENTS IO::Socket::INET NetServer::Generic (for server wrapping) Text::Wrap Lingua::LTS (for LTS wrapping, see 'grimm/lts/Lingua-LTS' directory in the DWDS CVS Repository) a running DDC server (for client connection) Current sources for the DDC search engine should be available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddc-concordance/ DESCRIPTION The DDC::Concordance package (formerly known as ddc-perl) provides object-oriented wrappers for querying and/or wrapping a DDC corpus index server. Also included in the distribution are some example scripts for querying a server, simple query expansion using an LTS transducer and an indexed 'pho' field, as well as a drop-in wrapper for an underlying DDC server which performs transparent query translation for an indexed 'pho' field. Current Version Current sources for this module should be available from CPAN ( http://metacpan.org/release/DDC-Concordance ) or via sourceforce ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddc-concordance/files/ddc-perl/ ). KNOWN BUGS Conflicting CPAN module names Unforunately, the top-level "DDC" namespace conflicts with another module on CPAN, namely Torsten Raudssus' "DDC" from the "Data-Coloured" distribution ( https://metacpan.org/pod/DDC ). As a workaround to this problem, the top-level module for this package has been renamed to "DDC::Concordance" in ddc-perl v0.17. New code should use the DDC::Concordance module directly as a top-level entry point and dependency target. For backwards-compatibility, the ddc-perl-compat distribution is provided to enable older code to run without explicit changes, but note that its installation may cause unexpected results if you also use the "DDC" module from the "Data::Coloured" distribution. If necessary, you can explicitly define a dependency on "DDC::Compat" to ensure that a backwards-compatible top-level "use DDC;" will load the DDC::Concordance module. The ddc-perl-compat distribution is available via sourceforce ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddc-concordance/files/ddc-perl/ ). AUTHOR Bryan Jurish