NCL NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  20 May 2003

Copyright (C) 2003-2008 Paul O. Lewis

Please send NCL bug reports to paul.lewis@uconn.edu.

See ChangeLog for details about minor upgrades.

Version 2.0
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This version significant upgrade to NCL in terms of ease of use for programmers
and the coverage of variants of NEXUS files.  This version naturally supports
multiple instances of blocks (common in files from Mesquite) and the Mixed
datatype used by MrBayes. Support for the UNALIGNED and ASSUMPTIONS block has
been dramatically improved. The SETS and CODONS blocks are now handled
(they are treated as special forms of the ASSUMPTIONS block to tolerate the
inclusion of many of the same commands in different block types). Almost all of
the changes in this version were made by Mark Holder, so please direct bug
reports, questions, and feature requests to him (though the sourceforge page
is the best place to report these).


Version 2.0
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Although this is the second version of the library, it is really the
first official release. My container classes used in the first version
have been replaced by their STL equivalents, and the source code
documentation is now much more thorough. This version is being pubicized
in the form of an application note in the journal Bioinformatics.

Version 1.0
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This first version did not make use of the standard template library,
instead using container classes of my own design. This version was
distributed from my web site, but never publicized.
