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Revision: 1.61
Committed: Sun Apr 27 19:15:43 2008 UTC (16 years ago) by elmex
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.60: +1 -0 lines
Log Message:
updated documentation and changelog and made the http test optional

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# Content
1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 - added AnyEvent::Handle and AnyEvent::Socket modules
4 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
5 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
6 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
7 the different event loops with each other.
8 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
9 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
10 - make Qt support non-experimental.
11 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
12 kept alive.
13 - document the race between loading of an event module and
14 child processes exiting.
15 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
16 enough, and darn slow).
17 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
18 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
19 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
20 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
21 faster than Event and Glib :).
22 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
23 by removing undocumented functionality.
24
25 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
26 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
27 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
28 for the same fh/poll combo).
29 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
30 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
31 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
32 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
33 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
34
35 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
36 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
37 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
38 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
39 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
40 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
41 - do not send the signal to the process group
42 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
43
44 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
45 - major documentation rework.
46 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
47 - fix the child watcher example.
48
49 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
50 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
51 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
52 don't get fixed anytime soon).
53 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
54 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
55 such strong limits).
56 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
57 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
58 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
59 any restrictions...).
60 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
61
62 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
63 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
64 up the Coro implementation in general.
65 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
66 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
67 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
68
69 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
70 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
71
72 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
73 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
74 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
75
76 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
77 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
78 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
79 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
80 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
81 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
82 (except when Event or EV are installed).
83
84 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
85 - fix bug in testsuite.
86 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
87 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
88
89 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
90 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
91 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
92 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
93
94 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
95 - work around a perl bug that results in
96 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
97 any discernible reason or error message by once
98 again not use'ing strict.
99
100 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
101 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
102
103 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
104 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
105 all current child watchers were destroyed.
106
107 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
108 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
109 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
110
111 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
112 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
113 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
114 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
115 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
116 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
117 - implement child watchers (experimental).
118 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
119 most implementation modules.
120
121 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
122 - better docs.
123 - simple testsuite.
124 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
125
126 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
127 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
128 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
129 - EXPERIMENTAL:
130 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
131 event model.
132 - improved documentation.
133 - reduced cpu overhead.
134
135 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
136 - add COPYING to clarify license.
137
138 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
139 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
140
141 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
142 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
143 - fix version number.
144
145 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
146 - fixed errors in the documentation.
147 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
148 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
149 this method.
150 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
151 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
152 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
153 (older) versions of glib.
154 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
155
156 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
157 - no changes to the code.
158 - fixed documentation.
159 - clarified some corner cases.
160 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
161
162 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
163 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
164 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
165 - don't die when some modules are not available.
166 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
167
168 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
169 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
170
171 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
172 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
173