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Revision: 1.57
Committed: Fri Apr 25 13:39:08 2008 UTC (16 years ago) by root
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# Content
1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
4 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
5 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
6 the different event loops with each other.
7 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
8 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
9 - make Qt support non-experimental.
10 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
11 kept alive.
12 - document the race between loading of an event module and
13 child processes exiting.
14 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
15 enough, and darn slow).
16 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
17 - optimise perl backend a bit (less memory).
18 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and icrease its speed by 30%,
19 by removing undocumented functionality.
20
21 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
22 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
23 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
24 for the same fh/poll combo).
25 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
26 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
27 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
28 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
29 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
30
31 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
32 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
33 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
34 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
35 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
36 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
37 - do not send the signal to the process group
38 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
39
40 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
41 - major documentation rework.
42 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
43 - fix the child watcher example.
44
45 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
46 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
47 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
48 don't get fixed anytime soon).
49 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
50 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
51 such strong limits).
52 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
53 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
54 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
55 any restrictions...).
56 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
57
58 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
59 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
60 up the Coro implementation in general.
61 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
62 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
63 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
64
65 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
66 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
67
68 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
69 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
70 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
71
72 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
73 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
74 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
75 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
76 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
77 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
78 (except when Event or EV are installed).
79
80 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
81 - fix bug in testsuite.
82 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
83 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
84
85 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
86 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
87 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
88 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
89
90 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
91 - work around a perl bug that results in
92 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
93 any discernible reason or error message by once
94 again not use'ing strict.
95
96 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
97 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
98
99 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
100 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
101 all current child watchers were destroyed.
102
103 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
104 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
105 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
106
107 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
108 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
109 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
110 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
111 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
112 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
113 - implement child watchers (experimental).
114 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
115 most implementation modules.
116
117 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
118 - better docs.
119 - simple testsuite.
120 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
121
122 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
123 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
124 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
125 - EXPERIMENTAL:
126 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
127 event model.
128 - improved documentation.
129 - reduced cpu overhead.
130
131 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
132 - add COPYING to clarify license.
133
134 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
135 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
136
137 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
138 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
139 - fix version number.
140
141 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
142 - fixed errors in the documentation.
143 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
144 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
145 this method.
146 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
147 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
148 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
149 (older) versions of glib.
150 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
151
152 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
153 - no changes to the code.
154 - fixed documentation.
155 - clarified some corner cases.
156 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
157
158 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
159 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
160 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
161 - don't die when some modules are not available.
162 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
163
164 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
165 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
166
167 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
168 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
169