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Revision: 1.62
Committed: Mon Apr 28 08:02:14 2008 UTC (16 years ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-3_3
Changes since 1.61: +6 -4 lines
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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
4 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
5 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
6 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
7 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
8 the different event loops with each other.
9 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
10 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
11 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
12 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
13 kept alive.
14 - document the race between loading of an event module and
15 child processes exiting.
16 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
17 enough, and darn slow).
18 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
19 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
20 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
21 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
22 faster than Event and Glib :).
23 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
24 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
25 to other event loops where possible.
26
27 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
28 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
29 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
30 for the same fh/poll combo).
31 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
32 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
33 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
34 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
35 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
36
37 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
38 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
39 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
40 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
41 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
42 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
43 - do not send the signal to the process group
44 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
45
46 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
47 - major documentation rework.
48 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
49 - fix the child watcher example.
50
51 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
52 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
53 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
54 don't get fixed anytime soon).
55 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
56 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
57 such strong limits).
58 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
59 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
60 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
61 any restrictions...).
62 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
63
64 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
65 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
66 up the Coro implementation in general.
67 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
68 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
69 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
70
71 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
72 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
73
74 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
75 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
76 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
77
78 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
79 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
80 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
81 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
82 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
83 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
84 (except when Event or EV are installed).
85
86 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
87 - fix bug in testsuite.
88 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
89 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
90
91 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
92 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
93 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
94 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
95
96 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
97 - work around a perl bug that results in
98 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
99 any discernible reason or error message by once
100 again not use'ing strict.
101
102 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
103 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
104
105 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
106 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
107 all current child watchers were destroyed.
108
109 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
110 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
111 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
112
113 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
114 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
115 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
116 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
117 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
118 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
119 - implement child watchers (experimental).
120 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
121 most implementation modules.
122
123 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
124 - better docs.
125 - simple testsuite.
126 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
127
128 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
129 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
130 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
131 - EXPERIMENTAL:
132 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
133 event model.
134 - improved documentation.
135 - reduced cpu overhead.
136
137 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
138 - add COPYING to clarify license.
139
140 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
141 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
142
143 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
144 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
145 - fix version number.
146
147 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
148 - fixed errors in the documentation.
149 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
150 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
151 this method.
152 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
153 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
154 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
155 (older) versions of glib.
156 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
157
158 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
159 - no changes to the code.
160 - fixed documentation.
161 - clarified some corner cases.
162 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
163
164 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
165 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
166 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
167 - don't die when some modules are not available.
168 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
169
170 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
171 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
172
173 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
174 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
175