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Revision: 1.79
Committed: Sat May 17 21:12:54 2008 UTC (16 years ago) by root
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# Content
1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
4 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
5 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
6 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
7 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
8 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
9 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
10 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
11 first and second argument.
12 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
13 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
14 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
15 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
16 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
17
18 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
19 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
20
21 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
22 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much mroe useful
23 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
24 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
25 (still subject to change).
26 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
27 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
28 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
29 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
30 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
31 via Coro::AnyEvent.
32
33 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
34 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
35 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
36 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
37 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
38 the different event loops with each other.
39 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
40 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
41 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
42 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
43 kept alive.
44 - document the race between loading of an event module and
45 child processes exiting.
46 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
47 enough, and darn slow).
48 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
49 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
50 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
51 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
52 faster than Event and Glib :).
53 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
54 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
55 to other event loops where possible.
56
57 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
58 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
59 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
60 for the same fh/poll combo).
61 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
62 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
63 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
64 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
65 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
66
67 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
68 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
69 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
70 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
71 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
72 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
73 - do not send the signal to the process group
74 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
75
76 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
77 - major documentation rework.
78 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
79 - fix the child watcher example.
80
81 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
82 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
83 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
84 don't get fixed anytime soon).
85 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
86 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
87 such strong limits).
88 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
89 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
90 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
91 any restrictions...).
92 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
93
94 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
95 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
96 up the Coro implementation in general.
97 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
98 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
99 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
100
101 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
102 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
103
104 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
105 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
106 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
107
108 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
109 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
110 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
111 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
112 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
113 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
114 (except when Event or EV are installed).
115
116 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
117 - fix bug in testsuite.
118 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
119 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
120
121 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
122 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
123 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
124 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
125
126 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
127 - work around a perl bug that results in
128 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
129 any discernible reason or error message by once
130 again not use'ing strict.
131
132 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
133 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
134
135 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
136 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
137 all current child watchers were destroyed.
138
139 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
140 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
141 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
142
143 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
144 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
145 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
146 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
147 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
148 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
149 - implement child watchers (experimental).
150 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
151 most implementation modules.
152
153 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
154 - better docs.
155 - simple testsuite.
156 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
157
158 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
159 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
160 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
161 - EXPERIMENTAL:
162 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
163 event model.
164 - improved documentation.
165 - reduced cpu overhead.
166
167 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
168 - add COPYING to clarify license.
169
170 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
171 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
172
173 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
174 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
175 - fix version number.
176
177 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
178 - fixed errors in the documentation.
179 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
180 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
181 this method.
182 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
183 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
184 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
185 (older) versions of glib.
186 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
187
188 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
189 - no changes to the code.
190 - fixed documentation.
191 - clarified some corner cases.
192 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
193
194 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
195 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
196 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
197 - don't die when some modules are not available.
198 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
199
200 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
201 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
202
203 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
204 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
205