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Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.

3.51
        - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
        - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
        - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
        - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
        - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
        - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
        - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
          become writable untill empty.
        - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
          returns ENOTCONN.
        - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP brutal
          override.

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:	1.88
Committed:	Fri May 23 17:47:06 2008 UTC (15 years, 11 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
Changes since 1.87:	+3 -1 lines
Log Message:	* empty log message *
#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.1	Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3	root	1.83	3.51
4	root	1.88	- added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
5			- added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
6			- AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
7	root	1.87	- try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
8	root	1.86	- make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
9	root	1.83	- support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
10	root	1.84	- work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
11			become writable untill empty.
12	root	1.81	- only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
13			returns ENOTCONN.
14	root	1.82	- defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP brutal
15			override.
16	root	1.81
17	root	1.80	3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
18	root	1.79	- gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
19			(as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
20	root	1.77	- added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
21			helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
22			- added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
23			- added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
24			- AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
25	elmex	1.74	- fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
26			first and second argument.
27	root	1.77	- simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
28	root	1.72	- fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
29	root	1.78	- considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
30			cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
31			and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
32	root	1.72
33	root	1.71	3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
34			- work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
35
36	root	1.70	3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
37			- complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much mroe useful
38			API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
39	root	1.69	- AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
40			(still subject to change).
41	root	1.63	- take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
42	root	1.68	- provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
43	root	1.67	allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
44			(used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
45	root	1.66	- remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
46			via Coro::AnyEvent.
47	root	1.63
48	root	1.62	3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
49			- added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
50	root	1.55	- fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
51			when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
52	root	1.54	- add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
53			the different event loops with each other.
54	root	1.56	- prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
55			but doesn't crash with many watchers.
56	root	1.62	- declare Qt support non-experimental.
57	root	1.56	- clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
58			kept alive.
59			- document the race between loading of an event module and
60			child processes exiting.
61	root	1.53	- support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
62	root	1.54	enough, and darn slow).
63	root	1.53	- support Wx and Prima through POE.
64	root	1.60	- optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
65	root	1.62	of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
66	root	1.60	select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
67			faster than Event and Glib :).
68	root	1.59	- roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
69	root	1.62	by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
70			to other event loops where possible.
71	root	1.53
72	root	1.50	3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
73	root	1.51	- do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
74			in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
75			for the same fh/poll combo).
76			- support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
77	root	1.47	- implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
78	root	1.49	- (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
79			- (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
80	root	1.52	- this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
81	root	1.47
82	root	1.46	3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
83			- reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
84			- do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
85			strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
86			- use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
87			better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
88			- do not send the signal to the process group
89			(no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
90
91	root	1.45	3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
92			- major documentation rework.
93			- document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
94			- fix the child watcher example.
95
96	root	1.43	3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
97	root	1.40	- work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
98	root	1.43	only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
99			don't get fixed anytime soon).
100	root	1.42	- lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
101			(as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
102			such strong limits).
103	root	1.41	- changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
104			- explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
105			unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
106			any restrictions...).
107			- add simple manpages for all backend modules.
108	root	1.40
109	root	1.39	3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
110	root	1.38	- Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
111			up the Coro implementation in general.
112			- rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
113			- add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
114	root	1.44	help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
115	root	1.38
116	root	1.37	2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
117			- update for EV 3.0 API changes.
118
119	root	1.36	2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
120			- waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
121			instead of reporting it to any watchers.
122
123	root	1.35	2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
124	root	1.34	- force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
125			too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
126	root	1.35	- deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
127			or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
128			watcher emulation. Could help with hanging testsuite
129			(except when Event or EV are installed).
130	root	1.34
131	root	1.33	2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
132	root	1.32	- fix bug in testsuite.
133			- move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
134			- add Coro+EV adaptor module.
135	root	1.26
136	root	1.31	2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
137	root	1.27	- add EV to the list of supported event models.
138	root	1.30	- do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
139	root	1.29	- allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
140	root	1.27
141	root	1.25	2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
142			- work around a perl bug that results in
143			BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
144			any discernible reason or error message by once
145			again not use'ing strict.
146
147	root	1.24	2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
148			- make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
149
150	root	1.22	2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
151			- child watchers stopped working permanently when
152	root	1.23	all current child watchers were destroyed.
153	root	1.22
154	root	1.21	2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
155			- work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
156			true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
157
158	root	1.20	2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
159	root	1.19	- avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
160	root	1.20	- AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
161			- implement signal watchers (experimental)
162			(Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
163			so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
164			- implement child watchers (experimental).
165			- moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
166			most implementation modules.
167	root	1.14
168	root	1.18	2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
169	root	1.16	- better docs.
170			- simple testsuite.
171	root	1.17	- added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
172	root	1.16
173	root	1.15	2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
174	root	1.13	- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
175			- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
176			- EXPERIMENTAL:
177			new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
178			event model.
179	root	1.12	- improved documentation.
180			- reduced cpu overhead.
181
182	root	1.11	1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
183			- add COPYING to clarify license.
184
185	root	1.10	1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
186			- correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
187
188	root	1.9	1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
189	root	1.8	- allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
190			- fix version number.
191
192	root	1.7	0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
193	root	1.6	- fixed errors in the documentation.
194	root	1.7	- going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
195			as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
196			this method.
197			- add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
198			and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
199			glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
200			(older) versions of glib.
201			- implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
202	root	1.6
203	root	1.5	0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
204			- no changes to the code.
205			- fixed documentation.
206			- clarified some corner cases.
207			- vastly improved documentation with a long example.
208
209	root	1.3	0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
210	root	1.44	- check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
211	root	1.4	- move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
212			- don't die when some modules are not available.
213			- Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
214	root	1.3
215	root	1.2	0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
216			- spiced up and cleaned up for release.
217
218	root	1.1	0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
219			- original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
220