[geneagrapher] 206/226: Update NEWS with item on BeautifulSoup.

Doug Torrance dtorrance-guest at moszumanska.debian.org
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commit ee796913dcca1502b8b43d4c7af30c98ea9b5fee
Author: David Alber <alber.david at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 28 21:20:29 2011 -0800

    Update NEWS with item on BeautifulSoup.
---
 NEWS.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index 1e29bf9..d0b8472 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ new data grabbers.
   graph. Previously, the graph structure retained all edges from the
   Math Genealogy Project information.
 
+ -Data is now extracted from Math Genealogy Project web pages using
+  BeautifulSoup (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/). This
+  means that the Geneagrapher now has an external dependency, but I
+  believe the advantages for testing and code readability, for this
+  case, outweigh the disadvantage of taking a dependency.
+
 0.2.1-r2
 --------
 

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