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Revision: 1.68
Committed: Sat May 10 01:02:25 2008 UTC (16 years ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
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# Content
1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 TODO: implement condvars...
4 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
5 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
6 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
7 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
8 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
9 via Coro::AnyEvent.
10
11 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
12 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
13 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
14 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
15 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
16 the different event loops with each other.
17 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
18 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
19 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
20 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
21 kept alive.
22 - document the race between loading of an event module and
23 child processes exiting.
24 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
25 enough, and darn slow).
26 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
27 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
28 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
29 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
30 faster than Event and Glib :).
31 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
32 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
33 to other event loops where possible.
34
35 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
36 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
37 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
38 for the same fh/poll combo).
39 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
40 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
41 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
42 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
43 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
44
45 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
46 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
47 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
48 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
49 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
50 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
51 - do not send the signal to the process group
52 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
53
54 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
55 - major documentation rework.
56 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
57 - fix the child watcher example.
58
59 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
60 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
61 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
62 don't get fixed anytime soon).
63 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
64 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
65 such strong limits).
66 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
67 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
68 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
69 any restrictions...).
70 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
71
72 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
73 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
74 up the Coro implementation in general.
75 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
76 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
77 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
78
79 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
80 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
81
82 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
83 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
84 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
85
86 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
87 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
88 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
89 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
90 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
91 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
92 (except when Event or EV are installed).
93
94 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
95 - fix bug in testsuite.
96 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
97 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
98
99 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
100 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
101 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
102 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
103
104 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
105 - work around a perl bug that results in
106 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
107 any discernible reason or error message by once
108 again not use'ing strict.
109
110 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
111 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
112
113 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
114 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
115 all current child watchers were destroyed.
116
117 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
118 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
119 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
120
121 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
122 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
123 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
124 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
125 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
126 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
127 - implement child watchers (experimental).
128 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
129 most implementation modules.
130
131 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
132 - better docs.
133 - simple testsuite.
134 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
135
136 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
137 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
138 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
139 - EXPERIMENTAL:
140 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
141 event model.
142 - improved documentation.
143 - reduced cpu overhead.
144
145 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
146 - add COPYING to clarify license.
147
148 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
149 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
150
151 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
152 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
153 - fix version number.
154
155 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
156 - fixed errors in the documentation.
157 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
158 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
159 this method.
160 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
161 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
162 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
163 (older) versions of glib.
164 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
165
166 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
167 - no changes to the code.
168 - fixed documentation.
169 - clarified some corner cases.
170 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
171
172 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
173 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
174 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
175 - don't die when some modules are not available.
176 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
177
178 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
179 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
180
181 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
182 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
183