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Revision: 1.402
Committed: Tue Jun 8 10:06:15 2010 UTC (13 years, 11 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-5_271
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# User Rev Content
1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2    
3 root 1.402 5.271 Tue Jun 8 12:05:46 CEST 2010
4 root 1.401 - backport to perl 5.8.x.
5    
6 root 1.400 5.27 Sun Jun 6 12:12:05 CEST 2010
7 root 1.398 - postpone differently in AnyEvent::Socket now, as
8     when not, canceling the connection attempt might fail
9     (found by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann).
10 root 1.397 - explicitly check for non-stream sockets in AE::Handle, too many
11     clueless people fell into the trap of this somehow working.
12 root 1.395 - simplified and reworked the "OTHER MODULES" section.
13 root 1.399 - better/more condvar examples.
14 root 1.395
15 root 1.394 5.261 Wed Apr 28 16:13:36 CEST 2010
16 root 1.393 - AF_INET6 was not properly used from Socket6 during configuration
17     time (found by Andy Grundman).
18    
19 root 1.392 5.26 Mon Apr 12 04:49:35 CEST 2010
20 root 1.389 - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select
21     returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase
22     by Bas Denissen).
23 root 1.391 - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE.
24 root 1.390 - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for
25     EV and Perl backends.
26     - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all
27     backends.
28     - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was
29     never documented nor universally supported).
30     - some more memory µ-optimisations, and somewhat less messy
31     code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs.
32 root 1.389
33 root 1.386 5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010
34 root 1.387 - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <=
35     5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult,
36     so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time.
37 root 1.386
38 root 1.384 5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010
39 root 1.383 - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause
40     a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_
41     ssl connection) after user code threw an exception.
42 root 1.385 - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method.
43 root 1.376 - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6.
44 root 1.378 - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only
45     by lucky accident on win32.
46 root 1.377 - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking.
47 root 1.379 - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent
48     did not fall back to built-in time properly.
49 root 1.381 - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time.
50     - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime
51     detection and eval.
52     - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations.
53 root 1.382 - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved
54 root 1.388 (same algorithm as EV).
55 root 1.385 - update unicode idna mapping table.
56 root 1.376
57 root 1.375 5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010
58     - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives
59     you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and
60     just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack.
61 root 1.374 - improve idle watcher documentation slightly.
62    
63 root 1.373 5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009
64 root 1.372 - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect.
65 root 1.373 - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep,
66     idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util.
67 root 1.366 - provide $AE::VERSION.
68 root 1.367 - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'".
69 root 1.366
70 root 1.365 5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009
71 root 1.358 - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to
72     diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly.
73 root 1.359 (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info
74     when passing scalar data to extensions).
75 root 1.360 - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage.
76 root 1.361 - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03.
77 root 1.362 - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS
78     (John Beppu).
79 root 1.364 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented.
80 root 1.363 - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure
81     we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all
82     fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config.
83 root 1.358
84 root 1.357 5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009
85 root 1.356 - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters
86 root 1.355 (spotted by David Friedland).
87 root 1.356 - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki).
88 root 1.355 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work
89     unless you rip out everything but the core).
90 root 1.357 - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32.
91     uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*.
92 root 1.355
93 root 1.354 5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009
94     - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows
95     (analysed by Matthias Waldorf).
96 root 1.353 - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the
97     newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might
98     sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve).
99    
100 root 1.352 5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009
101 root 1.350 - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken
102     (reported by Torsten Foertsch).
103 root 1.351 - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception
104     (analysed by elmex).
105 root 1.350
106 root 1.349 5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009
107 root 1.347 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type
108     and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support
109     package names (the facility was mostly abused).
110 root 1.349 - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in
111     AnyEvent::Handle.
112 root 1.345 - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline".
113 root 1.346 - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues.
114 root 1.349 - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback
115     support (spotted by Pavel Boldin).
116 root 1.345
117 root 1.344 5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009
118 root 1.343 - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people
119     use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported
120     by Michael S. Fischer).
121     - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0.
122 root 1.342 - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems
123     with large hex constants in the Perl backend.
124     - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS
125     by default.
126 root 1.343 - fix some prototypes.
127 root 1.344 - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02.
128 root 1.343 - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers.
129 root 1.342
130 root 1.339 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009
131 root 1.338 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when
132     using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context.
133 root 1.339 - port to broken win32 perls.
134 root 1.338
135 root 1.337 5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009
136     - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the
137     kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding
138     sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses
139     the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other
140     OSes as well).
141    
142 root 1.336 5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009
143 elmex 1.335 - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename.
144 root 1.336 - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction
145     to reduce dependency on JSON.
146 elmex 1.335
147 root 1.334 5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009
148 root 1.333 - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated
149     one (was broken since 4.91).
150     - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers
151     when retrying a tcp_connect.
152     - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except.
153 elmex 1.332 - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket.
154    
155 root 1.330 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
156     - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
157    
158 root 1.329 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
159     - officially introduce and document the AE API.
160 root 1.323 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
161     in AnyEvent::Handle.
162 root 1.324 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
163     settings.
164 root 1.326 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
165     runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
166     exporting the probe function).
167 root 1.328 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
168     code to work around it's watcher limits.
169     - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
170     - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
171 root 1.327 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
172 root 1.329 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
173 root 1.325 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
174 root 1.322
175 root 1.321 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
176 root 1.319 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
177     already contains some TLS handshake.
178 root 1.318 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
179     memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
180 root 1.320 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
181     the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
182 root 1.321 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
183 root 1.317
184 root 1.316 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
185 root 1.308 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
186     a negative value, so avoid that.
187 root 1.315 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
188     after the condition is already signalled.
189 root 1.314 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
190     data.
191 root 1.305 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
192     signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
193 root 1.308 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
194     mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
195     any issues).
196 root 1.310 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
197 root 1.309 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
198     by name (not name or number).
199     - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
200 root 1.308 only compiling signal code when necessary.
201 root 1.313 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
202 root 1.311 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
203     said future/alternative API.
204 root 1.315 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
205 root 1.305
206 root 1.303 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
207     - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
208 root 1.304 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
209 root 1.351 (analysed by elmex).
210 root 1.303
211 root 1.302 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
212 root 1.301 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
213     AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
214     for errors after every push_write etc.
215 root 1.302 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
216     platforms.
217 root 1.301
218 root 1.300 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
219 root 1.295 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
220 root 1.296 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
221     segfault in Net::SSLeay.
222 root 1.298 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
223 root 1.299 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
224     tutorial accordingly.
225 root 1.297 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
226 root 1.295
227 root 1.294 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
228     - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
229     that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
230 root 1.292 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
231 root 1.293 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
232     - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
233 root 1.292 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
234 root 1.302 in IO::Async.
235 root 1.292
236 root 1.290 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
237 root 1.287 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
238     (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
239     - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
240     - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
241     - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
242     documentation.
243 root 1.288 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
244     by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
245 root 1.289 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
246     and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
247     - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
248     - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
249 root 1.286
250 root 1.285 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
251 root 1.284 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
252 root 1.283 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
253 root 1.284 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
254     this trap.
255 root 1.281 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
256     executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
257     half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
258 root 1.282 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
259     on_read callbacks.
260 root 1.281 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
261 root 1.279
262 root 1.278 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
263 root 1.277 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
264     callbacks.
265 root 1.275 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
266     in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
267     module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
268 root 1.276 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
269     Event::Lib.
270     - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
271     to rarely fail.
272 root 1.275
273 root 1.274 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
274 root 1.272 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
275     (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
276 root 1.268 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
277     in AnyEvent->io.
278 root 1.265 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
279 root 1.266 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
280     and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
281 root 1.267 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
282 root 1.273 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
283 root 1.270 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
284     portable_socketpair.
285 root 1.271 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
286     YMMV.
287 root 1.265
288 root 1.264 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
289 root 1.261 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
290     uppercase targets.
291 root 1.262 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
292     with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
293     causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
294 root 1.260 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
295     creation, with many options including hostname verification,
296     secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
297     predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
298     and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
299     - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
300 root 1.256 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
301     so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
302     in the common case.
303 root 1.258 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
304     - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
305     on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
306 root 1.263 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
307 root 1.257 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
308     failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
309     from the constructor.
310 root 1.259 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
311     then fall back to JSON.
312 root 1.262 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
313     and because it was documented that way.
314 root 1.256
315 root 1.258 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
316     - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
317     object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
318    
319 root 1.255 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
320     - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
321     an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
322 root 1.251 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
323     AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
324     to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
325 root 1.254 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
326 root 1.252 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
327     - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
328 root 1.255 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
329 root 1.250
330 root 1.249 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
331 root 1.248 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
332 root 1.247 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
333     case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
334     even when the calling env acts stupidly.
335 root 1.248 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
336 root 1.247
337 root 1.245 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
338 root 1.242 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
339     and set it on the default resolver.
340 root 1.241 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
341 root 1.242 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
342     when running in tainted mode.
343 root 1.244 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
344 root 1.241
345 root 1.240 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
346 root 1.239 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
347    
348 root 1.238 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
349 root 1.236 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
350     a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
351 root 1.237 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
352     destructors.
353     - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
354     synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
355     implementation.
356 root 1.238 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
357     for cosmetic reasons.
358 root 1.235
359 root 1.234 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
360     - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
361 root 1.232 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
362     - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
363     - sped up Tk timer handling.
364 root 1.233 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
365     to avoid spamming out warning messages.
366 root 1.232 - fix Qt timers without interval.
367 root 1.242 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
368 root 1.232
369 root 1.231 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
370 root 1.229 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
371 root 1.230 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
372     - add AnyEvent->now_update.
373 root 1.229
374 root 1.228 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
375 root 1.225 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
376 root 1.227 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
377     perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
378 root 1.226 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
379 root 1.225
380 root 1.224 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
381 root 1.220 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
382     invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
383     and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
384     event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
385     callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
386 root 1.224 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
387 root 1.223 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
388 root 1.220 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
389 root 1.221 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
390     is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
391 root 1.224 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
392 root 1.220
393 root 1.219 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
394 root 1.218 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
395     deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
396     read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
397 root 1.214 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
398 root 1.215 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
399     - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
400     backend.
401 root 1.216 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
402 root 1.214
403 root 1.213 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
404 root 1.212 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
405     completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
406     so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
407     (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
408     - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
409 root 1.211 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
410    
411 root 1.210 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
412     - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
413     illegal.
414 root 1.206 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
415     by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
416 root 1.207 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
417     by Adam Rosenstein).
418 root 1.209 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
419 root 1.208 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
420 root 1.209 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
421 root 1.206
422 root 1.205 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
423 root 1.204 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
424     unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
425     the socket type.
426     - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
427    
428 root 1.203 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
429 root 1.200 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
430 root 1.203 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
431 root 1.200 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
432     instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
433 root 1.201 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
434 root 1.202 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
435 root 1.198
436 root 1.197 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
437 root 1.196 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
438     unless one has been installed already.
439 root 1.197 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
440     (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
441 root 1.390 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle.
442 root 1.193 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
443 root 1.191 client would first wait for some data by the server and
444 root 1.351 otherwise hang. (reported and analysed in an absolutely
445 root 1.191 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
446 root 1.193 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
447 root 1.191 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
448 root 1.351 (reported and analysed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
449 root 1.191 Rosenstein).
450 root 1.193 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
451 root 1.191 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
452     Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
453 root 1.192 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
454     - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
455     instead of simply destroying the stream now.
456 root 1.195 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
457     would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
458 root 1.193 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
459     - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
460     now, more to come, though.
461 root 1.194 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
462 root 1.191
463 root 1.190 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
464 root 1.189 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
465     no trace events.
466 root 1.190 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
467     - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
468 root 1.188 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
469 root 1.187 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
470 root 1.190 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
471 root 1.187 Time::HiRes).
472    
473 root 1.186 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
474     - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
475     - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
476    
477 root 1.185 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
478     - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
479     callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
480     (testcase by Leon Brocard).
481     - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
482    
483 root 1.184 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
484     - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
485     (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
486     perls without resource leaks or worse).
487    
488 root 1.183 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
489 root 1.177 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
490     the callback.
491 root 1.178 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
492 root 1.180 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
493 root 1.179 eol marker.
494 root 1.180 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
495 root 1.182 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
496 root 1.180 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
497 root 1.177
498 root 1.176 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
499 root 1.174 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
500 root 1.175 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
501     working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
502     some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
503     people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
504 root 1.174
505 root 1.173 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
506 root 1.171 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
507     which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
508 root 1.172 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
509     why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
510     unusable way.
511     - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
512     AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
513     K. Sharifulin).
514 root 1.170
515 root 1.169 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
516 root 1.165 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
517 root 1.164 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
518     be delayed under some circumstances.
519 root 1.167 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
520 root 1.169 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
521     and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
522     - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
523 root 1.168 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
524 root 1.164 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
525    
526 root 1.163 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
527 elmex 1.162 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
528 root 1.163 assumption that all data could be written before read
529     (reported by Jim Razmus).
530 elmex 1.162
531 root 1.161 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
532 root 1.160 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
533     not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
534     implementation (also affected child watchers).
535 root 1.159 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
536    
537 root 1.158 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
538 root 1.159 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
539     on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
540 root 1.158 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
541    
542 root 1.157 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
543     - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
544     works.
545    
546 root 1.155 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
547 root 1.154 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
548     one watcher was registered for the same fd.
549 root 1.155 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
550     for AnyEvent::Handle.
551 root 1.156 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
552 root 1.153 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
553    
554 root 1.152 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
555 elmex 1.149 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
556 root 1.150 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
557     executing the guard block as warnings.
558 root 1.152 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
559 elmex 1.149
560 root 1.148 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
561 root 1.146 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
562     contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
563     microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
564 root 1.147 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
565     but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
566     case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
567     and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
568 root 1.145 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
569     when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
570     and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
571     enter an endless loop.
572     - correctly start reading again when the handle became
573     busy again after idling.
574 root 1.146 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
575     (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
576 root 1.145 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
577     (hopefully).
578 root 1.146 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
579     away any time.
580 root 1.145
581 root 1.144 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
582     - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
583     anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
584 root 1.143 - allow more options in on_error.
585 root 1.142
586 root 1.141 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
587 root 1.135 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
588     reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
589     v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
590 root 1.129 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
591 root 1.130 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
592     also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
593 root 1.134 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
594 root 1.133 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
595     rfc 2782.
596 root 1.137 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
597     - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
598 root 1.138 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
599     being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
600     could die. this has been fixed.
601     - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
602     - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
603 root 1.139 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
604     for resolver class.
605 root 1.140 - update version numbers in all modules.
606 root 1.129
607 root 1.128 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
608 root 1.123 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
609     which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
610     for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
611     AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
612 root 1.127 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
613 root 1.124 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
614 root 1.123 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
615     - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
616     a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
617 root 1.126 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
618 root 1.122 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
619     - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
620 root 1.118 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
621     - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
622 root 1.120 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
623 root 1.127 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
624 root 1.121 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
625     select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
626     workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
627     but EV also works around this).
628 root 1.123 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
629 root 1.122 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
630     vs. callback arguments.
631 root 1.127 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
632 root 1.117
633 root 1.116 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
634     - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
635     the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
636     didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
637 root 1.114 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
638    
639 root 1.113 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
640 root 1.109 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
641 root 1.110 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
642     EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
643 root 1.111 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
644 root 1.106 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
645 root 1.112 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
646 root 1.104 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
647 root 1.114 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
648 root 1.107 sake of perl 5.8.
649 root 1.106 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
650     (still a hack...)
651     - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
652 root 1.108 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
653     die handlers.
654 root 1.104
655 root 1.102 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
656 root 1.100 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
657     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
658 root 1.96 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
659 root 1.97 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
660 root 1.101 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
661 root 1.100 - updated documentation.
662 root 1.103 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
663 root 1.98 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
664     in AnyEvent::Handle.
665 root 1.101 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
666     - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
667 root 1.99 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
668 root 1.100 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
669 root 1.96
670 root 1.95 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
671 root 1.88 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
672     - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
673 root 1.93 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
674 root 1.90 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
675     - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
676 root 1.94 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
677 root 1.93 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
678 root 1.89 verbatim ip addresses.
679 root 1.88 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
680 root 1.87 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
681 root 1.86 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
682 root 1.83 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
683 root 1.84 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
684 root 1.121 become writable until empty.
685 root 1.81 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
686     returns ENOTCONN.
687 root 1.181 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
688 root 1.82 override.
689 root 1.91 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
690 root 1.81
691 root 1.80 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
692 root 1.79 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
693     (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
694 root 1.77 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
695     helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
696     - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
697     - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
698     - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
699 elmex 1.74 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
700     first and second argument.
701 root 1.77 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
702 root 1.72 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
703 root 1.78 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
704     cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
705     and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
706 root 1.72
707 root 1.71 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
708     - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
709    
710 root 1.70 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
711 root 1.181 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
712 root 1.70 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
713 root 1.69 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
714     (still subject to change).
715 root 1.63 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
716 root 1.68 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
717 root 1.67 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
718     (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
719 root 1.66 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
720     via Coro::AnyEvent.
721 root 1.63
722 root 1.62 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
723     - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
724 root 1.55 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
725     when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
726 root 1.54 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
727     the different event loops with each other.
728 root 1.56 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
729     but doesn't crash with many watchers.
730 root 1.62 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
731 root 1.56 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
732     kept alive.
733     - document the race between loading of an event module and
734     child processes exiting.
735 root 1.53 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
736 root 1.54 enough, and darn slow).
737 root 1.53 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
738 root 1.60 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
739 root 1.62 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
740 root 1.60 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
741     faster than Event and Glib :).
742 root 1.59 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
743 root 1.62 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
744     to other event loops where possible.
745 root 1.53
746 root 1.50 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
747 root 1.51 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
748     in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
749     for the same fh/poll combo).
750     - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
751 root 1.47 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
752 root 1.49 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
753     - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
754 root 1.52 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
755 root 1.47
756 root 1.46 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
757     - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
758     - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
759     strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
760     - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
761     better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
762     - do not send the signal to the process group
763     (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
764    
765 root 1.45 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
766     - major documentation rework.
767     - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
768     - fix the child watcher example.
769    
770 root 1.43 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
771 root 1.40 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
772 root 1.43 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
773     don't get fixed anytime soon).
774 root 1.42 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
775     (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
776     such strong limits).
777 root 1.41 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
778     - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
779     unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
780     any restrictions...).
781     - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
782 root 1.40
783 root 1.39 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
784 root 1.38 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
785     up the Coro implementation in general.
786     - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
787     - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
788 root 1.44 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
789 root 1.38
790 root 1.37 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
791     - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
792    
793 root 1.36 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
794     - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
795     instead of reporting it to any watchers.
796    
797 root 1.35 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
798 root 1.34 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
799     too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
800 root 1.35 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
801     or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
802     watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
803     (except when Event or EV are installed).
804 root 1.34
805 root 1.33 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
806 root 1.32 - fix bug in testsuite.
807     - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
808     - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
809 root 1.26
810 root 1.31 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
811 root 1.27 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
812 root 1.30 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
813 root 1.29 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
814 root 1.27
815 root 1.25 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
816     - work around a perl bug that results in
817     BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
818     any discernible reason or error message by once
819     again not use'ing strict.
820    
821 root 1.24 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
822     - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
823    
824 root 1.22 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
825     - child watchers stopped working permanently when
826 root 1.23 all current child watchers were destroyed.
827 root 1.22
828 root 1.21 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
829     - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
830     true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
831    
832 root 1.20 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
833 root 1.19 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
834 root 1.20 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
835     - implement signal watchers (experimental)
836     (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
837     so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
838     - implement child watchers (experimental).
839     - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
840     most implementation modules.
841 root 1.14
842 root 1.18 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
843 root 1.16 - better docs.
844     - simple testsuite.
845 root 1.17 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
846 root 1.16
847 root 1.15 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
848 root 1.13 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
849     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
850     - EXPERIMENTAL:
851     new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
852     event model.
853 root 1.12 - improved documentation.
854     - reduced cpu overhead.
855    
856 root 1.11 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
857     - add COPYING to clarify license.
858    
859 root 1.10 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
860     - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
861    
862 root 1.9 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
863 root 1.8 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
864     - fix version number.
865    
866 root 1.7 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
867 root 1.6 - fixed errors in the documentation.
868 root 1.7 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
869     as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
870     this method.
871     - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
872     and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
873     glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
874     (older) versions of glib.
875     - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
876 root 1.6
877 root 1.5 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
878     - no changes to the code.
879     - fixed documentation.
880     - clarified some corner cases.
881     - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
882    
883 root 1.3 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
884 root 1.44 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
885 root 1.4 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
886     - don't die when some modules are not available.
887     - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
888 root 1.3
889 root 1.2 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
890     - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
891    
892 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
893     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
894