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Revision: 1.397
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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2    
3 root 1.392 TODO: docs signal for condvar
4    
5 root 1.397 - explicitly check for non-stream sockets in AE::Handle, too many
6     clueless people fell into the trap of this somehow working.
7 root 1.395 - simplified and reworked the "OTHER MODULES" section.
8    
9 root 1.394 5.261 Wed Apr 28 16:13:36 CEST 2010
10 root 1.393 - AF_INET6 was not properly used from Socket6 during configuration
11     time (found by Andy Grundman).
12    
13 root 1.392 5.26 Mon Apr 12 04:49:35 CEST 2010
14 root 1.389 - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select
15     returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase
16     by Bas Denissen).
17 root 1.391 - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE.
18 root 1.390 - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for
19     EV and Perl backends.
20     - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all
21     backends.
22     - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was
23     never documented nor universally supported).
24     - some more memory µ-optimisations, and somewhat less messy
25     code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs.
26 root 1.389
27 root 1.386 5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010
28 root 1.387 - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <=
29     5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult,
30     so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time.
31 root 1.386
32 root 1.384 5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010
33 root 1.383 - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause
34     a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_
35     ssl connection) after user code threw an exception.
36 root 1.385 - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method.
37 root 1.376 - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6.
38 root 1.378 - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only
39     by lucky accident on win32.
40 root 1.377 - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking.
41 root 1.379 - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent
42     did not fall back to built-in time properly.
43 root 1.381 - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time.
44     - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime
45     detection and eval.
46     - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations.
47 root 1.382 - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved
48 root 1.388 (same algorithm as EV).
49 root 1.385 - update unicode idna mapping table.
50 root 1.376
51 root 1.375 5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010
52     - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives
53     you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and
54     just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack.
55 root 1.374 - improve idle watcher documentation slightly.
56    
57 root 1.373 5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009
58 root 1.372 - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect.
59 root 1.373 - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep,
60     idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util.
61 root 1.366 - provide $AE::VERSION.
62 root 1.367 - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'".
63 root 1.366
64 root 1.365 5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009
65 root 1.358 - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to
66     diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly.
67 root 1.359 (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info
68     when passing scalar data to extensions).
69 root 1.360 - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage.
70 root 1.361 - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03.
71 root 1.362 - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS
72     (John Beppu).
73 root 1.364 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented.
74 root 1.363 - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure
75     we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all
76     fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config.
77 root 1.358
78 root 1.357 5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009
79 root 1.356 - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters
80 root 1.355 (spotted by David Friedland).
81 root 1.356 - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki).
82 root 1.355 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work
83     unless you rip out everything but the core).
84 root 1.357 - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32.
85     uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*.
86 root 1.355
87 root 1.354 5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009
88     - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows
89     (analysed by Matthias Waldorf).
90 root 1.353 - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the
91     newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might
92     sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve).
93    
94 root 1.352 5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009
95 root 1.350 - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken
96     (reported by Torsten Foertsch).
97 root 1.351 - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception
98     (analysed by elmex).
99 root 1.350
100 root 1.349 5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009
101 root 1.347 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type
102     and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support
103     package names (the facility was mostly abused).
104 root 1.349 - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in
105     AnyEvent::Handle.
106 root 1.345 - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline".
107 root 1.346 - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues.
108 root 1.349 - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback
109     support (spotted by Pavel Boldin).
110 root 1.345
111 root 1.344 5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009
112 root 1.343 - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people
113     use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported
114     by Michael S. Fischer).
115     - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0.
116 root 1.342 - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems
117     with large hex constants in the Perl backend.
118     - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS
119     by default.
120 root 1.343 - fix some prototypes.
121 root 1.344 - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02.
122 root 1.343 - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers.
123 root 1.342
124 root 1.339 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009
125 root 1.338 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when
126     using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context.
127 root 1.339 - port to broken win32 perls.
128 root 1.338
129 root 1.337 5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009
130     - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the
131     kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding
132     sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses
133     the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other
134     OSes as well).
135    
136 root 1.336 5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009
137 elmex 1.335 - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename.
138 root 1.336 - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction
139     to reduce dependency on JSON.
140 elmex 1.335
141 root 1.334 5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009
142 root 1.333 - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated
143     one (was broken since 4.91).
144     - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers
145     when retrying a tcp_connect.
146     - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except.
147 elmex 1.332 - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket.
148    
149 root 1.330 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
150     - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
151    
152 root 1.329 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
153     - officially introduce and document the AE API.
154 root 1.323 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
155     in AnyEvent::Handle.
156 root 1.324 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
157     settings.
158 root 1.326 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
159     runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
160     exporting the probe function).
161 root 1.328 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
162     code to work around it's watcher limits.
163     - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
164     - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
165 root 1.327 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
166 root 1.329 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
167 root 1.325 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
168 root 1.322
169 root 1.321 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
170 root 1.319 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
171     already contains some TLS handshake.
172 root 1.318 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
173     memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
174 root 1.320 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
175     the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
176 root 1.321 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
177 root 1.317
178 root 1.316 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
179 root 1.308 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
180     a negative value, so avoid that.
181 root 1.315 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
182     after the condition is already signalled.
183 root 1.314 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
184     data.
185 root 1.305 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
186     signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
187 root 1.308 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
188     mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
189     any issues).
190 root 1.310 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
191 root 1.309 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
192     by name (not name or number).
193     - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
194 root 1.308 only compiling signal code when necessary.
195 root 1.313 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
196 root 1.311 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
197     said future/alternative API.
198 root 1.315 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
199 root 1.305
200 root 1.303 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
201     - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
202 root 1.304 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
203 root 1.351 (analysed by elmex).
204 root 1.303
205 root 1.302 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
206 root 1.301 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
207     AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
208     for errors after every push_write etc.
209 root 1.302 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
210     platforms.
211 root 1.301
212 root 1.300 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
213 root 1.295 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
214 root 1.296 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
215     segfault in Net::SSLeay.
216 root 1.298 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
217 root 1.299 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
218     tutorial accordingly.
219 root 1.297 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
220 root 1.295
221 root 1.294 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
222     - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
223     that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
224 root 1.292 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
225 root 1.293 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
226     - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
227 root 1.292 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
228 root 1.302 in IO::Async.
229 root 1.292
230 root 1.290 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
231 root 1.287 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
232     (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
233     - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
234     - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
235     - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
236     documentation.
237 root 1.288 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
238     by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
239 root 1.289 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
240     and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
241     - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
242     - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
243 root 1.286
244 root 1.285 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
245 root 1.284 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
246 root 1.283 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
247 root 1.284 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
248     this trap.
249 root 1.281 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
250     executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
251     half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
252 root 1.282 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
253     on_read callbacks.
254 root 1.281 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
255 root 1.279
256 root 1.278 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
257 root 1.277 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
258     callbacks.
259 root 1.275 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
260     in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
261     module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
262 root 1.276 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
263     Event::Lib.
264     - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
265     to rarely fail.
266 root 1.275
267 root 1.274 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
268 root 1.272 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
269     (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
270 root 1.268 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
271     in AnyEvent->io.
272 root 1.265 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
273 root 1.266 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
274     and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
275 root 1.267 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
276 root 1.273 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
277 root 1.270 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
278     portable_socketpair.
279 root 1.271 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
280     YMMV.
281 root 1.265
282 root 1.264 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
283 root 1.261 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
284     uppercase targets.
285 root 1.262 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
286     with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
287     causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
288 root 1.260 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
289     creation, with many options including hostname verification,
290     secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
291     predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
292     and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
293     - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
294 root 1.256 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
295     so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
296     in the common case.
297 root 1.258 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
298     - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
299     on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
300 root 1.263 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
301 root 1.257 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
302     failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
303     from the constructor.
304 root 1.259 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
305     then fall back to JSON.
306 root 1.262 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
307     and because it was documented that way.
308 root 1.256
309 root 1.258 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
310     - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
311     object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
312    
313 root 1.255 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
314     - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
315     an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
316 root 1.251 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
317     AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
318     to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
319 root 1.254 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
320 root 1.252 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
321     - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
322 root 1.255 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
323 root 1.250
324 root 1.249 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
325 root 1.248 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
326 root 1.247 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
327     case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
328     even when the calling env acts stupidly.
329 root 1.248 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
330 root 1.247
331 root 1.245 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
332 root 1.242 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
333     and set it on the default resolver.
334 root 1.241 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
335 root 1.242 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
336     when running in tainted mode.
337 root 1.244 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
338 root 1.241
339 root 1.240 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
340 root 1.239 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
341    
342 root 1.238 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
343 root 1.236 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
344     a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
345 root 1.237 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
346     destructors.
347     - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
348     synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
349     implementation.
350 root 1.238 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
351     for cosmetic reasons.
352 root 1.235
353 root 1.234 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
354     - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
355 root 1.232 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
356     - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
357     - sped up Tk timer handling.
358 root 1.233 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
359     to avoid spamming out warning messages.
360 root 1.232 - fix Qt timers without interval.
361 root 1.242 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
362 root 1.232
363 root 1.231 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
364 root 1.229 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
365 root 1.230 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
366     - add AnyEvent->now_update.
367 root 1.229
368 root 1.228 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
369 root 1.225 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
370 root 1.227 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
371     perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
372 root 1.226 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
373 root 1.225
374 root 1.224 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
375 root 1.220 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
376     invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
377     and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
378     event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
379     callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
380 root 1.224 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
381 root 1.223 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
382 root 1.220 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
383 root 1.221 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
384     is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
385 root 1.224 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
386 root 1.220
387 root 1.219 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
388 root 1.218 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
389     deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
390     read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
391 root 1.214 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
392 root 1.215 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
393     - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
394     backend.
395 root 1.216 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
396 root 1.214
397 root 1.213 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
398 root 1.212 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
399     completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
400     so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
401     (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
402     - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
403 root 1.211 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
404    
405 root 1.210 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
406     - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
407     illegal.
408 root 1.206 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
409     by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
410 root 1.207 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
411     by Adam Rosenstein).
412 root 1.209 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
413 root 1.208 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
414 root 1.209 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
415 root 1.206
416 root 1.205 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
417 root 1.204 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
418     unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
419     the socket type.
420     - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
421    
422 root 1.203 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
423 root 1.200 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
424 root 1.203 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
425 root 1.200 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
426     instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
427 root 1.201 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
428 root 1.202 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
429 root 1.198
430 root 1.197 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
431 root 1.196 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
432     unless one has been installed already.
433 root 1.197 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
434     (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
435 root 1.390 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle.
436 root 1.193 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
437 root 1.191 client would first wait for some data by the server and
438 root 1.351 otherwise hang. (reported and analysed in an absolutely
439 root 1.191 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
440 root 1.193 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
441 root 1.191 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
442 root 1.351 (reported and analysed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
443 root 1.191 Rosenstein).
444 root 1.193 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
445 root 1.191 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
446     Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
447 root 1.192 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
448     - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
449     instead of simply destroying the stream now.
450 root 1.195 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
451     would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
452 root 1.193 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
453     - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
454     now, more to come, though.
455 root 1.194 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
456 root 1.191
457 root 1.190 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
458 root 1.189 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
459     no trace events.
460 root 1.190 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
461     - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
462 root 1.188 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
463 root 1.187 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
464 root 1.190 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
465 root 1.187 Time::HiRes).
466    
467 root 1.186 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
468     - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
469     - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
470    
471 root 1.185 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
472     - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
473     callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
474     (testcase by Leon Brocard).
475     - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
476    
477 root 1.184 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
478     - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
479     (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
480     perls without resource leaks or worse).
481    
482 root 1.183 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
483 root 1.177 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
484     the callback.
485 root 1.178 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
486 root 1.180 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
487 root 1.179 eol marker.
488 root 1.180 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
489 root 1.182 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
490 root 1.180 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
491 root 1.177
492 root 1.176 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
493 root 1.174 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
494 root 1.175 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
495     working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
496     some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
497     people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
498 root 1.174
499 root 1.173 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
500 root 1.171 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
501     which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
502 root 1.172 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
503     why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
504     unusable way.
505     - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
506     AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
507     K. Sharifulin).
508 root 1.170
509 root 1.169 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
510 root 1.165 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
511 root 1.164 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
512     be delayed under some circumstances.
513 root 1.167 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
514 root 1.169 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
515     and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
516     - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
517 root 1.168 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
518 root 1.164 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
519    
520 root 1.163 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
521 elmex 1.162 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
522 root 1.163 assumption that all data could be written before read
523     (reported by Jim Razmus).
524 elmex 1.162
525 root 1.161 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
526 root 1.160 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
527     not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
528     implementation (also affected child watchers).
529 root 1.159 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
530    
531 root 1.158 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
532 root 1.159 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
533     on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
534 root 1.158 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
535    
536 root 1.157 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
537     - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
538     works.
539    
540 root 1.155 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
541 root 1.154 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
542     one watcher was registered for the same fd.
543 root 1.155 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
544     for AnyEvent::Handle.
545 root 1.156 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
546 root 1.153 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
547    
548 root 1.152 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
549 elmex 1.149 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
550 root 1.150 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
551     executing the guard block as warnings.
552 root 1.152 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
553 elmex 1.149
554 root 1.148 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
555 root 1.146 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
556     contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
557     microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
558 root 1.147 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
559     but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
560     case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
561     and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
562 root 1.145 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
563     when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
564     and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
565     enter an endless loop.
566     - correctly start reading again when the handle became
567     busy again after idling.
568 root 1.146 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
569     (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
570 root 1.145 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
571     (hopefully).
572 root 1.146 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
573     away any time.
574 root 1.145
575 root 1.144 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
576     - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
577     anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
578 root 1.143 - allow more options in on_error.
579 root 1.142
580 root 1.141 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
581 root 1.135 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
582     reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
583     v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
584 root 1.129 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
585 root 1.130 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
586     also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
587 root 1.134 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
588 root 1.133 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
589     rfc 2782.
590 root 1.137 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
591     - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
592 root 1.138 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
593     being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
594     could die. this has been fixed.
595     - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
596     - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
597 root 1.139 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
598     for resolver class.
599 root 1.140 - update version numbers in all modules.
600 root 1.129
601 root 1.128 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
602 root 1.123 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
603     which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
604     for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
605     AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
606 root 1.127 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
607 root 1.124 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
608 root 1.123 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
609     - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
610     a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
611 root 1.126 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
612 root 1.122 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
613     - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
614 root 1.118 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
615     - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
616 root 1.120 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
617 root 1.127 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
618 root 1.121 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
619     select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
620     workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
621     but EV also works around this).
622 root 1.123 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
623 root 1.122 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
624     vs. callback arguments.
625 root 1.127 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
626 root 1.117
627 root 1.116 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
628     - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
629     the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
630     didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
631 root 1.114 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
632    
633 root 1.113 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
634 root 1.109 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
635 root 1.110 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
636     EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
637 root 1.111 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
638 root 1.106 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
639 root 1.112 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
640 root 1.104 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
641 root 1.114 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
642 root 1.107 sake of perl 5.8.
643 root 1.106 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
644     (still a hack...)
645     - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
646 root 1.108 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
647     die handlers.
648 root 1.104
649 root 1.102 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
650 root 1.100 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
651     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
652 root 1.96 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
653 root 1.97 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
654 root 1.101 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
655 root 1.100 - updated documentation.
656 root 1.103 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
657 root 1.98 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
658     in AnyEvent::Handle.
659 root 1.101 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
660     - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
661 root 1.99 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
662 root 1.100 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
663 root 1.96
664 root 1.95 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
665 root 1.88 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
666     - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
667 root 1.93 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
668 root 1.90 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
669     - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
670 root 1.94 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
671 root 1.93 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
672 root 1.89 verbatim ip addresses.
673 root 1.88 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
674 root 1.87 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
675 root 1.86 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
676 root 1.83 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
677 root 1.84 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
678 root 1.121 become writable until empty.
679 root 1.81 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
680     returns ENOTCONN.
681 root 1.181 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
682 root 1.82 override.
683 root 1.91 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
684 root 1.81
685 root 1.80 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
686 root 1.79 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
687     (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
688 root 1.77 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
689     helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
690     - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
691     - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
692     - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
693 elmex 1.74 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
694     first and second argument.
695 root 1.77 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
696 root 1.72 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
697 root 1.78 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
698     cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
699     and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
700 root 1.72
701 root 1.71 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
702     - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
703    
704 root 1.70 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
705 root 1.181 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
706 root 1.70 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
707 root 1.69 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
708     (still subject to change).
709 root 1.63 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
710 root 1.68 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
711 root 1.67 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
712     (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
713 root 1.66 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
714     via Coro::AnyEvent.
715 root 1.63
716 root 1.62 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
717     - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
718 root 1.55 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
719     when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
720 root 1.54 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
721     the different event loops with each other.
722 root 1.56 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
723     but doesn't crash with many watchers.
724 root 1.62 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
725 root 1.56 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
726     kept alive.
727     - document the race between loading of an event module and
728     child processes exiting.
729 root 1.53 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
730 root 1.54 enough, and darn slow).
731 root 1.53 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
732 root 1.60 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
733 root 1.62 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
734 root 1.60 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
735     faster than Event and Glib :).
736 root 1.59 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
737 root 1.62 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
738     to other event loops where possible.
739 root 1.53
740 root 1.50 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
741 root 1.51 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
742     in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
743     for the same fh/poll combo).
744     - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
745 root 1.47 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
746 root 1.49 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
747     - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
748 root 1.52 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
749 root 1.47
750 root 1.46 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
751     - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
752     - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
753     strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
754     - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
755     better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
756     - do not send the signal to the process group
757     (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
758    
759 root 1.45 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
760     - major documentation rework.
761     - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
762     - fix the child watcher example.
763    
764 root 1.43 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
765 root 1.40 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
766 root 1.43 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
767     don't get fixed anytime soon).
768 root 1.42 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
769     (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
770     such strong limits).
771 root 1.41 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
772     - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
773     unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
774     any restrictions...).
775     - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
776 root 1.40
777 root 1.39 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
778 root 1.38 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
779     up the Coro implementation in general.
780     - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
781     - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
782 root 1.44 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
783 root 1.38
784 root 1.37 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
785     - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
786    
787 root 1.36 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
788     - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
789     instead of reporting it to any watchers.
790    
791 root 1.35 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
792 root 1.34 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
793     too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
794 root 1.35 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
795     or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
796     watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
797     (except when Event or EV are installed).
798 root 1.34
799 root 1.33 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
800 root 1.32 - fix bug in testsuite.
801     - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
802     - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
803 root 1.26
804 root 1.31 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
805 root 1.27 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
806 root 1.30 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
807 root 1.29 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
808 root 1.27
809 root 1.25 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
810     - work around a perl bug that results in
811     BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
812     any discernible reason or error message by once
813     again not use'ing strict.
814    
815 root 1.24 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
816     - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
817    
818 root 1.22 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
819     - child watchers stopped working permanently when
820 root 1.23 all current child watchers were destroyed.
821 root 1.22
822 root 1.21 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
823     - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
824     true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
825    
826 root 1.20 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
827 root 1.19 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
828 root 1.20 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
829     - implement signal watchers (experimental)
830     (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
831     so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
832     - implement child watchers (experimental).
833     - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
834     most implementation modules.
835 root 1.14
836 root 1.18 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
837 root 1.16 - better docs.
838     - simple testsuite.
839 root 1.17 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
840 root 1.16
841 root 1.15 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
842 root 1.13 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
843     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
844     - EXPERIMENTAL:
845     new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
846     event model.
847 root 1.12 - improved documentation.
848     - reduced cpu overhead.
849    
850 root 1.11 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
851     - add COPYING to clarify license.
852    
853 root 1.10 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
854     - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
855    
856 root 1.9 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
857 root 1.8 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
858     - fix version number.
859    
860 root 1.7 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
861 root 1.6 - fixed errors in the documentation.
862 root 1.7 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
863     as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
864     this method.
865     - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
866     and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
867     glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
868     (older) versions of glib.
869     - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
870 root 1.6
871 root 1.5 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
872     - no changes to the code.
873     - fixed documentation.
874     - clarified some corner cases.
875     - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
876    
877 root 1.3 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
878 root 1.44 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
879 root 1.4 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
880     - don't die when some modules are not available.
881     - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
882 root 1.3
883 root 1.2 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
884     - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
885    
886 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
887     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
888