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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 TODO: document TCP_*** constants
4 TODO: catch AE::xxx for anyevent strict and anyevent debug
5 TODO: anyevent::trace? or debug tracing all watchers?
6 TODO: anyevent strict checking for $_ changes?
7
8 TODO: redesign Impl
9 TODO: make ae::run mroe robust against eintr, find out which env still causes these issues Andrew Suffield
10 TODO: IO::Async sometimes cancels the wrong timer when you call cancel_timer. Invest extra overhead to work around this peculiar behaviour.
11 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::DNS resource records now include
12 the TTL as fourth element - this affects ->resolve directly,
13 and ->request and ->dns_unpack indirectly. Convenience functions
14 such as AnyEvent::DNS::{a,txt,mx,srv} are not affected.
15 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: backend authors now should not implement
16 one_event or loop, but instead the AnyEvent::CondVar::_wait and _poll
17 methods.
18 - DEPRECIATION: please change
19 "use AnyEvent::Impl::Perl" to "use AnyEvent::Loop" and
20 "AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop" to "AnyEvent::Loop::run"
21 in your programs, for future compatibility.
22 - querying too long domain names would barf deep inside AnyEvent::DNS - since
23 this is hard to avoid for applications, AnyEvent:.DNS::request now checks for
24 for too long domain names explicitly and passes an undef to the callback
25 instead (reported by James Bromberger).
26 - new function: AnyEvent::postpone.
27 - IO::Async sometimes cancels the wrong timer when you call cancel_timer.
28 Invest extra overhead to work around this peculiar behaviour.
29 - split the pure perl backend into a loop module and an impl
30 module (AnyEvent::Loop and AnyEvent::Impl::Perl).
31 - some read types (regex, netstring, json, storable) could
32 errornously keep an AE::Handle object alive on their own
33 (reported by Mohammad Toossi).
34 - add more workarounds around child watcher bugs in IO::Async
35 and (newly introduced) in POE.
36 - use glib child watchers and try to work around its limitations,
37 if possible (based on a patch by Kevin Ryde).
38 - add support for (currently third-party) AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK.
39 - many read types in AnyEvent::Handle would malfunction during
40 transitions to TLS because of a "delete $self->{rbuf}".
41 (reported by Gerald Galster).
42 - resolve AnyEvent::Util::guard at first-use-time, not at load time,
43 for further speed and memory savings when not used.
44 - improve condvar blocking wait performance (probably only noticable
45 with faster backends), also make it easier for event loops that
46 do not support blocking waits.
47 - PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL now also allows full module names, although
48 the usefulness of this feature is not yet clear.
49
50 5.34 Thu May 12 09:59:41 CEST 2011
51 - AE::TLS didn't support both cert_file and key at the same time,
52 due to some copy&paste bug (reported and analyzed by vti).
53 - improve AE::Handle timeout documentation slightly.
54
55 5.33 Mon Feb 7 21:51:41 CET 2011
56 - never appeared on CPAN, for unknown reasons.
57 - AnyEvent::Handle on_connect_error - do not try to destroy a handle
58 object when it's already gone (analyzed by Ryan Bullock).
59 - update idna algorithm(s) to UTS#46 version 6.0.0.
60 - preserve trailing dot in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to preserve,
61 uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
62 - remove leading dots in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to remove,
63 uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
64 - fixed a bug in idn ignored character processing.
65 - passes the uts46 6.0.0 testsuite except for three cases which
66 apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
67 - passes the uts46 6.0.1 testsuite except for eleven cases which
68 apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
69
70 5.31 Sun Jan 23 11:49:19 CET 2011
71 - work around a POE bug where POE would first poll for new events and
72 invoke handlers BEFORE handling the message queue.
73 - fix parsing of "domain" statement in resolv.conf (Johannes Plunien).
74 - stop_read now does just that in TLS mode. see its
75 documentation for caveats.
76 - update to common::sense 3.4 warning set (some warnings in perl impose
77 an arbitrary 32kb limit on regex matches, which affects
78 AnyEvent::Handle).
79 - AE::Handle had a broken rbuf_max method and missing wbuf_max method.
80 - new experimental AE::Handle::resettls method.
81
82 5.3 Fri Dec 31 05:48:13 CET 2010
83 - major IOAsync patch by Paul Evans - 0.33 is required, as the major
84 issues with IO::Async have been solved in that version, including
85 the availabilty of a default loop!
86 - implement new wbuf_max parameter for AnyEvent::Handle.
87 - added Cocoa::EventLoop backend by Daisuke Murase.
88 - the default testsuite now honors PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL (Paul Evans).
89 - clarify handle on_prepare documentation.
90 - set CLOEXEC flag on parent-side fd's in AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd,
91 to avoid leaking them to any child processes.
92 - try to force files into the arch-dependend lib directory, for the
93 half-"turly obsessive compulsive person"(s) that depend on it.
94
95 5.29 Sun Dec 5 10:49:21 CET 2010
96 - convert EV backend to EV 4.00 API (so better upgrade EV too).
97 - AE::Handle: implement dynamic read_size adjustment, add
98 max_read_size parameter, reduce default read_size to 2048.
99 - add some FAQ entries for servers and/or on_eof vs. on_error.
100 - work around OS bugs (cygwin again) when lingering in AE::Handle.
101 - reduce memory usage slightly when connect was used in AE::Handle.
102 - wrok around more segfaults in Tk.
103 - document tls_ctx => undef as valid.
104 - detect WNOHANG value at compiletime.
105 - include some probably linux-only support for building AnyEvent
106 as part of the perl core.
107 - improve compatibility of t/08_idna.t to perl 5.8.
108 - make AnyEvent::Strict truly optional (in case somebody builds a
109 minimal perl...).
110
111 5.28 Wed Oct 13 04:14:23 CEST 2010
112 - due to a glitch, AnyEvent's internal getprotobyname wasn't
113 actually used in tcp_server.
114 - implement AnyEvent::CondVar->new method, which was documented but
115 missing.
116 - support autoloading of read types in unshift_read.
117 - AnyEvent::Strict: do the test for invalid fh arguments differently,
118 resulting in more informative error messages.
119 - new AnyEvent::FAQ manpage.
120 - clarify that you can actually call push_read etc. in on_read.
121 - put keys and certs in /tmp, not into the current directory,
122 and document this in the SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS sections
123 of AnyEvent::TLS.
124 - support ";" as resolv.conf comment character in AnyEvent::DNS, as
125 requested by Ron Isaacson.
126 - document $AnyEvent::DNS::RESOLVER variable.
127 - incorporated major typo patches by Abhijit Menon-Sen.
128 - AnyEvent::Handle now croaks when negative timeouts are passed.
129 - add a shitload of TCP_xxx sockopt name constants to AnyEvent::Util,
130 undocumented, but who knows when they might come in handy.
131
132 5.271 Tue Jun 8 12:05:46 CEST 2010
133 - backport to perl 5.8.x.
134
135 5.27 Sun Jun 6 12:12:05 CEST 2010
136 - postpone differently in AnyEvent::Socket now, as
137 when not, canceling the connection attempt might fail
138 (found by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann).
139 - explicitly check for non-stream sockets in AE::Handle, too many
140 clueless people fell into the trap of this somehow working.
141 - simplified and reworked the "OTHER MODULES" section.
142 - better/more condvar examples.
143
144 5.261 Wed Apr 28 16:13:36 CEST 2010
145 - AF_INET6 was not properly used from Socket6 during configuration
146 time (found by Andy Grundman).
147
148 5.26 Mon Apr 12 04:49:35 CEST 2010
149 - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select
150 returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase
151 by Bas Denissen).
152 - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE.
153 - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for
154 EV and Perl backends.
155 - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all
156 backends.
157 - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was
158 never documented nor universally supported).
159 - some more memory µ-optimisations, and somewhat less messy
160 code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs.
161
162 5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010
163 - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <=
164 5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult,
165 so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time.
166
167 5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010
168 - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause
169 a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_
170 ssl connection) after user code threw an exception.
171 - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method.
172 - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6.
173 - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only
174 by lucky accident on win32.
175 - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking.
176 - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent
177 did not fall back to built-in time properly.
178 - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time.
179 - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime
180 detection and eval.
181 - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations.
182 - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved
183 (same algorithm as EV).
184 - update unicode idna mapping table.
185
186 5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010
187 - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives
188 you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and
189 just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack.
190 - improve idle watcher documentation slightly.
191
192 5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009
193 - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect.
194 - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep,
195 idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util.
196 - provide $AE::VERSION.
197 - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'".
198
199 5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009
200 - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to
201 diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly.
202 (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info
203 when passing scalar data to extensions).
204 - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage.
205 - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03.
206 - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS
207 (John Beppu).
208 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented.
209 - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure
210 we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all
211 fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config.
212
213 5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009
214 - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters
215 (spotted by David Friedland).
216 - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki).
217 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work
218 unless you rip out everything but the core).
219 - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32.
220 uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*.
221
222 5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009
223 - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows
224 (analysed by Matthias Waldorf).
225 - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the
226 newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might
227 sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve).
228
229 5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009
230 - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken
231 (reported by Torsten Foertsch).
232 - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception
233 (analysed by elmex).
234
235 5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009
236 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type
237 and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support
238 package names (the facility was mostly abused).
239 - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in
240 AnyEvent::Handle.
241 - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline".
242 - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues.
243 - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback
244 support (spotted by Pavel Boldin).
245
246 5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009
247 - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people
248 use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported
249 by Michael S. Fischer).
250 - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0.
251 - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems
252 with large hex constants in the Perl backend.
253 - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS
254 by default.
255 - fix some prototypes.
256 - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02.
257 - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers.
258
259 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009
260 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when
261 using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context.
262 - port to broken win32 perls.
263
264 5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009
265 - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the
266 kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding
267 sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses
268 the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other
269 OSes as well).
270
271 5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009
272 - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename.
273 - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction
274 to reduce dependency on JSON.
275
276 5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009
277 - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated
278 one (was broken since 4.91).
279 - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers
280 when retrying a tcp_connect.
281 - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except.
282 - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket.
283
284 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
285 - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
286
287 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
288 - officially introduce and document the AE API.
289 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
290 in AnyEvent::Handle.
291 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
292 settings.
293 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
294 runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
295 exporting the probe function).
296 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
297 code to work around it's watcher limits.
298 - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
299 - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
300 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
301 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
302 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
303
304 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
305 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
306 already contains some TLS handshake.
307 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
308 memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
309 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
310 the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
311 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
312
313 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
314 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
315 a negative value, so avoid that.
316 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
317 after the condition is already signalled.
318 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
319 data.
320 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
321 signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
322 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
323 mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
324 any issues).
325 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
326 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
327 by name (not name or number).
328 - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
329 only compiling signal code when necessary.
330 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
331 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
332 said future/alternative API.
333 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
334
335 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
336 - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
337 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
338 (analysed by elmex).
339
340 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
341 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
342 AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
343 for errors after every push_write etc.
344 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
345 platforms.
346
347 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
348 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
349 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
350 segfault in Net::SSLeay.
351 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
352 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
353 tutorial accordingly.
354 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
355
356 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
357 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
358 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
359 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
360 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
361 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
362 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
363 in IO::Async.
364
365 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
366 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
367 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
368 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
369 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
370 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
371 documentation.
372 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
373 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
374 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
375 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
376 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
377 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
378
379 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
380 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
381 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
382 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
383 this trap.
384 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
385 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
386 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
387 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
388 on_read callbacks.
389 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
390
391 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
392 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
393 callbacks.
394 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
395 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
396 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
397 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
398 Event::Lib.
399 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
400 to rarely fail.
401
402 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
403 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
404 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
405 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
406 in AnyEvent->io.
407 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
408 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
409 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
410 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
411 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
412 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
413 portable_socketpair.
414 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
415 YMMV.
416
417 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
418 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
419 uppercase targets.
420 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
421 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
422 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
423 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
424 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
425 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
426 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
427 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
428 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
429 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
430 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
431 in the common case.
432 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
433 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
434 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
435 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
436 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
437 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
438 from the constructor.
439 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
440 then fall back to JSON.
441 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
442 and because it was documented that way.
443
444 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
445 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
446 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
447
448 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
449 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
450 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
451 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
452 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
453 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
454 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
455 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
456 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
457 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
458
459 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
460 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
461 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
462 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
463 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
464 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
465
466 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
467 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
468 and set it on the default resolver.
469 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
470 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
471 when running in tainted mode.
472 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
473
474 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
475 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
476
477 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
478 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
479 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
480 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
481 destructors.
482 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
483 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
484 implementation.
485 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
486 for cosmetic reasons.
487
488 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
489 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
490 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
491 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
492 - sped up Tk timer handling.
493 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
494 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
495 - fix Qt timers without interval.
496 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
497
498 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
499 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
500 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
501 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
502
503 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
504 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
505 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
506 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
507 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
508
509 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
510 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
511 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
512 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
513 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
514 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
515 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
516 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
517 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
518 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
519 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
520 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
521
522 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
523 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
524 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
525 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
526 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
527 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
528 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
529 backend.
530 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
531
532 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
533 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
534 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
535 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
536 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
537 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
538 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
539
540 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
541 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
542 illegal.
543 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
544 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
545 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
546 by Adam Rosenstein).
547 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
548 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
549 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
550
551 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
552 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
553 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
554 the socket type.
555 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
556
557 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
558 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
559 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
560 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
561 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
562 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
563 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
564
565 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
566 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
567 unless one has been installed already.
568 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
569 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
570 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle.
571 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
572 client would first wait for some data by the server and
573 otherwise hang. (reported and analysed in an absolutely
574 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
575 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
576 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
577 (reported and analysed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
578 Rosenstein).
579 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
580 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
581 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
582 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
583 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
584 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
585 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
586 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
587 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
588 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
589 now, more to come, though.
590 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
591
592 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
593 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
594 no trace events.
595 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
596 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
597 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
598 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
599 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
600 Time::HiRes).
601
602 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
603 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
604 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
605
606 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
607 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
608 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
609 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
610 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
611
612 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
613 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
614 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
615 perls without resource leaks or worse).
616
617 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
618 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
619 the callback.
620 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
621 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
622 eol marker.
623 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
624 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
625 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
626
627 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
628 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
629 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
630 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
631 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
632 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
633
634 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
635 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
636 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
637 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
638 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
639 unusable way.
640 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
641 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
642 K. Sharifulin).
643
644 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
645 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
646 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
647 be delayed under some circumstances.
648 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
649 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
650 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
651 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
652 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
653 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
654
655 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
656 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
657 assumption that all data could be written before read
658 (reported by Jim Razmus).
659
660 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
661 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
662 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
663 implementation (also affected child watchers).
664 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
665
666 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
667 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
668 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
669 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
670
671 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
672 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
673 works.
674
675 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
676 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
677 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
678 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
679 for AnyEvent::Handle.
680 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
681 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
682
683 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
684 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
685 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
686 executing the guard block as warnings.
687 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
688
689 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
690 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
691 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
692 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
693 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
694 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
695 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
696 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
697 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
698 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
699 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
700 enter an endless loop.
701 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
702 busy again after idling.
703 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
704 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
705 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
706 (hopefully).
707 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
708 away any time.
709
710 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
711 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
712 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
713 - allow more options in on_error.
714
715 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
716 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
717 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
718 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
719 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
720 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
721 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
722 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
723 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
724 rfc 2782.
725 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
726 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
727 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
728 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
729 could die. this has been fixed.
730 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
731 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
732 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
733 for resolver class.
734 - update version numbers in all modules.
735
736 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
737 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
738 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
739 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
740 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
741 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
742 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
743 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
744 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
745 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
746 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
747 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
748 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
749 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
750 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
751 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
752 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
753 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
754 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
755 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
756 but EV also works around this).
757 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
758 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
759 vs. callback arguments.
760 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
761
762 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
763 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
764 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
765 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
766 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
767
768 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
769 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
770 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
771 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
772 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
773 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
774 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
775 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
776 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
777 sake of perl 5.8.
778 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
779 (still a hack...)
780 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
781 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
782 die handlers.
783
784 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
785 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
786 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
787 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
788 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
789 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
790 - updated documentation.
791 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
792 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
793 in AnyEvent::Handle.
794 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
795 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
796 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
797 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
798
799 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
800 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
801 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
802 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
803 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
804 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
805 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
806 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
807 verbatim ip addresses.
808 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
809 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
810 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
811 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
812 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
813 become writable until empty.
814 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
815 returns ENOTCONN.
816 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
817 override.
818 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
819
820 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
821 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
822 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
823 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
824 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
825 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
826 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
827 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
828 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
829 first and second argument.
830 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
831 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
832 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
833 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
834 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
835
836 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
837 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
838
839 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
840 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
841 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
842 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
843 (still subject to change).
844 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
845 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
846 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
847 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
848 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
849 via Coro::AnyEvent.
850
851 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
852 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
853 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
854 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
855 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
856 the different event loops with each other.
857 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
858 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
859 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
860 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
861 kept alive.
862 - document the race between loading of an event module and
863 child processes exiting.
864 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
865 enough, and darn slow).
866 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
867 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
868 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
869 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
870 faster than Event and Glib :).
871 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
872 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
873 to other event loops where possible.
874
875 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
876 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
877 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
878 for the same fh/poll combo).
879 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
880 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
881 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
882 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
883 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
884
885 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
886 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
887 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
888 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
889 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
890 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
891 - do not send the signal to the process group
892 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
893
894 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
895 - major documentation rework.
896 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
897 - fix the child watcher example.
898
899 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
900 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
901 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
902 don't get fixed anytime soon).
903 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
904 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
905 such strong limits).
906 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
907 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
908 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
909 any restrictions...).
910 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
911
912 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
913 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
914 up the Coro implementation in general.
915 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
916 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
917 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
918
919 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
920 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
921
922 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
923 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
924 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
925
926 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
927 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
928 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
929 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
930 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
931 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
932 (except when Event or EV are installed).
933
934 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
935 - fix bug in testsuite.
936 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
937 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
938
939 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
940 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
941 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
942 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
943
944 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
945 - work around a perl bug that results in
946 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
947 any discernible reason or error message by once
948 again not use'ing strict.
949
950 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
951 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
952
953 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
954 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
955 all current child watchers were destroyed.
956
957 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
958 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
959 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
960
961 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
962 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
963 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
964 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
965 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
966 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
967 - implement child watchers (experimental).
968 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
969 most implementation modules.
970
971 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
972 - better docs.
973 - simple testsuite.
974 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
975
976 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
977 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
978 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
979 - EXPERIMENTAL:
980 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
981 event model.
982 - improved documentation.
983 - reduced cpu overhead.
984
985 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
986 - add COPYING to clarify license.
987
988 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
989 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
990
991 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
992 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
993 - fix version number.
994
995 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
996 - fixed errors in the documentation.
997 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
998 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
999 this method.
1000 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
1001 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
1002 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
1003 (older) versions of glib.
1004 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
1005
1006 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
1007 - no changes to the code.
1008 - fixed documentation.
1009 - clarified some corner cases.
1010 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
1011
1012 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
1013 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
1014 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
1015 - don't die when some modules are not available.
1016 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
1017
1018 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
1019 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
1020
1021 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
1022 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1023