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Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.

3.5  Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
        - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
          (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
        - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
          helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
        - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
        - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
        - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
        - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
          first and second argument.
        - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
        - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
        - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
          cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
          and aaaa records if no a record could be found.

3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
        - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.

3.4  Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
        - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much mroe useful
          API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
        - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
          (still subject to change).
        - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
        - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
          allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
          (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
        - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
          via Coro::AnyEvent.

3.3  Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
        - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
        - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
          when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
        - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
          the different event loops with each other.
        - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
          but doesn't crash with many watchers.
        - declare Qt support non-experimental.
        - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
          kept alive.
        - document the race between loading of an event module and
          child processes exiting.
        - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
          enough, and darn slow).
        - support Wx and Prima through POE.
        - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
          of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
          select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
          faster than Event and Glib :).
        - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
          by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
          to other event loops where possible.

3.2  Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
        - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
          in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
          for the same fh/poll combo).
        - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
        - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
        - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
        - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
        - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.

3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
        - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
        - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
          strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
        - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
          better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
        - do not send the signal to the process group
          (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).

3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
        - major documentation rework.
        - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
        - fix the child watcher example.

3.1  Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
        - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
          only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
          don't get fixed anytime soon).
        - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
          (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
          such strong limits).
        - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
        - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
          unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
          any restrictions...).
        - add simple manpages for all backend modules.

3.0  Mon Apr  7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
        - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
          up the Coro implementation in general.
        - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
        - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
          help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.

2.9  Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
        - update for EV 3.0 API changes.

2.8  Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
        - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
          instead of reporting it to any watchers.

2.7  Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
        - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
          too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
        - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
          or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
          watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
          (except when Event or EV are installed).

2.6  Fri Nov  9 20:36:35 CET 2007
        - fix bug in testsuite.
        - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
        - add Coro+EV adaptor module.

2.55 Tue Nov  6 17:41:32 CET 2007
        - add EV to the list of supported event models.
        - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
        - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.

2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
        - work around a perl bug that results in
          BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
          any discernible reason or error message by once
          again not use'ing strict.

2.53 Sun Jul  8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
        - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).

2.52 Wed Mar  7 18:36:16 CET 2007
        - child watchers stopped working permanently when
          all current child watchers were destroyed.

2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
        - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
          true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.

2.5  Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
        - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
        - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
        - implement signal watchers (experimental)
          (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
          so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
        - implement child watchers (experimental).
        - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
          most implementation modules.

2.1  Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
        - better docs.
        - simple testsuite.
        - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.

2.0  Wed Nov  1 02:21:30 CET 2006
        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
        - EXPERIMENTAL:
          new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
          event model.
        - improved documentation.
        - reduced cpu overhead.

1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
        - add COPYING to clarify license.

1.01 Sun Jan  8 05:48:09 CET 2006
        - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.

1.0  Sun Jan  8 05:40:58 CET 2006
        - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
        - fix version number.

0.9  Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
        - fixed errors in the documentation.
        - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
          as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
          this method.
        - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
          and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
          glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
          (older) versions of glib.
        - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.

0.3   Sun Dec  4 10:43:33 CET 2005
        - no changes to the code.
        - fixed documentation.
        - clarified some corner cases.
        - vastly improved documentation with a long example.

0.2   Thu Dec  1 22:18:49 CET 2005
        - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
        - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
        - don't die when some modules are not available.
        - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.

0.1   Thu Dec  1 19:44:57 CET 2005
        - spiced up and cleaned up for release.

0.01  Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
        - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.

Revision:	1.80
Committed:	Sat May 17 21:34:15 2008 UTC (16 years ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
CVS Tags:	rel-3_5
Changes since 1.79:	+1 -0 lines
Log Message:	* empty log message *
#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.1	Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3	root	1.80	3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
4	root	1.79	- gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
5			(as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
6	root	1.77	- added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
7			helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
8			- added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
9			- added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
10			- AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
11	elmex	1.74	- fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
12			first and second argument.
13	root	1.77	- simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
14	root	1.72	- fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
15	root	1.78	- considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
16			cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
17			and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
18	root	1.72
19	root	1.71	3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
20			- work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
21
22	root	1.70	3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
23			- complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much mroe useful
24			API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
25	root	1.69	- AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
26			(still subject to change).
27	root	1.63	- take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
28	root	1.68	- provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
29	root	1.67	allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
30			(used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
31	root	1.66	- remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
32			via Coro::AnyEvent.
33	root	1.63
34	root	1.62	3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
35			- added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
36	root	1.55	- fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
37			when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
38	root	1.54	- add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
39			the different event loops with each other.
40	root	1.56	- prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
41			but doesn't crash with many watchers.
42	root	1.62	- declare Qt support non-experimental.
43	root	1.56	- clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
44			kept alive.
45			- document the race between loading of an event module and
46			child processes exiting.
47	root	1.53	- support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
48	root	1.54	enough, and darn slow).
49	root	1.53	- support Wx and Prima through POE.
50	root	1.60	- optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
51	root	1.62	of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
52	root	1.60	select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
53			faster than Event and Glib :).
54	root	1.59	- roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
55	root	1.62	by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
56			to other event loops where possible.
57	root	1.53
58	root	1.50	3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
59	root	1.51	- do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
60			in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
61			for the same fh/poll combo).
62			- support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
63	root	1.47	- implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
64	root	1.49	- (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
65			- (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
66	root	1.52	- this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
67	root	1.47
68	root	1.46	3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
69			- reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
70			- do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
71			strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
72			- use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
73			better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
74			- do not send the signal to the process group
75			(no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
76
77	root	1.45	3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
78			- major documentation rework.
79			- document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
80			- fix the child watcher example.
81
82	root	1.43	3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
83	root	1.40	- work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
84	root	1.43	only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
85			don't get fixed anytime soon).
86	root	1.42	- lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
87			(as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
88			such strong limits).
89	root	1.41	- changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
90			- explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
91			unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
92			any restrictions...).
93			- add simple manpages for all backend modules.
94	root	1.40
95	root	1.39	3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
96	root	1.38	- Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
97			up the Coro implementation in general.
98			- rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
99			- add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
100	root	1.44	help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
101	root	1.38
102	root	1.37	2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
103			- update for EV 3.0 API changes.
104
105	root	1.36	2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
106			- waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
107			instead of reporting it to any watchers.
108
109	root	1.35	2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
110	root	1.34	- force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
111			too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
112	root	1.35	- deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
113			or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
114			watcher emulation. Could help with hanging testsuite
115			(except when Event or EV are installed).
116	root	1.34
117	root	1.33	2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
118	root	1.32	- fix bug in testsuite.
119			- move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
120			- add Coro+EV adaptor module.
121	root	1.26
122	root	1.31	2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
123	root	1.27	- add EV to the list of supported event models.
124	root	1.30	- do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
125	root	1.29	- allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
126	root	1.27
127	root	1.25	2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
128			- work around a perl bug that results in
129			BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
130			any discernible reason or error message by once
131			again not use'ing strict.
132
133	root	1.24	2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
134			- make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
135
136	root	1.22	2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
137			- child watchers stopped working permanently when
138	root	1.23	all current child watchers were destroyed.
139	root	1.22
140	root	1.21	2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
141			- work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
142			true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
143
144	root	1.20	2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
145	root	1.19	- avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
146	root	1.20	- AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
147			- implement signal watchers (experimental)
148			(Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
149			so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
150			- implement child watchers (experimental).
151			- moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
152			most implementation modules.
153	root	1.14
154	root	1.18	2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
155	root	1.16	- better docs.
156			- simple testsuite.
157	root	1.17	- added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
158	root	1.16
159	root	1.15	2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
160	root	1.13	- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
161			- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
162			- EXPERIMENTAL:
163			new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
164			event model.
165	root	1.12	- improved documentation.
166			- reduced cpu overhead.
167
168	root	1.11	1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
169			- add COPYING to clarify license.
170
171	root	1.10	1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
172			- correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
173
174	root	1.9	1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
175	root	1.8	- allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
176			- fix version number.
177
178	root	1.7	0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
179	root	1.6	- fixed errors in the documentation.
180	root	1.7	- going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
181			as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
182			this method.
183			- add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
184			and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
185			glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
186			(older) versions of glib.
187			- implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
188	root	1.6
189	root	1.5	0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
190			- no changes to the code.
191			- fixed documentation.
192			- clarified some corner cases.
193			- vastly improved documentation with a long example.
194
195	root	1.3	0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
196	root	1.44	- check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
197	root	1.4	- move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
198			- don't die when some modules are not available.
199			- Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
200	root	1.3
201	root	1.2	0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
202			- spiced up and cleaned up for release.
203
204	root	1.1	0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
205			- original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
206