I've just uploaded a new developer release of POE to PAUSE. You
should see it at your favorite CPAN mirror in however long that sort
of thing usually takes.
This version has accumulated a lot of change since July 2008, so I'm
giving the CPAN testers a crack at it before I unleash it upon an
unsuspecting public. You may wish to test it under controlled
circumstances as well, and send any bug reports to [email protected].
IMPORTANT:
POE::Session no longer sets $^W=0 globally. Your programs may
suddenly sprout new warnings. They were there all along, lurking
under the surface, waiting to strike! POE 1.004 will rip aside the
veil, exposing them to the harsh light of day. See my previous
announcement. You have been warned! Twice now! Three or more times,
if you're hanging out in irc.perl.org #poe.
Several warnings within POE and POE::Test::Loops (and some POE
components) were cleared up after this. Many thanks to the #poe crowd
for springing into action. :)
I've had problems installing Event, Tk and Gtk, so their loops haven't
been properly tested. If you encounter trouble, please let me know
via [email protected]. I'll try to turn around a fix quickly. More
about this in my next message.
Other significant changes:
Apocalypse resolved the now-infamous F_GETFL and F_SETFL prototype
warnings.
POE::NFA now supports object_states and package_states in addition to
its inline_states. Also the runstate constructor parameter. Thank
you, BinGOs.
Test fixes for edge cases with different event loops and platforms.
Thank you, Rob Bloodgood, among others.
Apocalypse fixed a 30sec delay when exiting under TRACE_STATISTICS.
He also added TRACE_PROFILE support for profiling individual sessions.
POE::Kernel gains a new convenience method, run_while():
run_while() is an B<experimental> version of run_one_timeslice()
that will only return when there are no more active sessions, or the
value of the referenced scalar becomes false.
my $job_count = 3;
sub handle_some_event {
$job_count--;
}
$kernel->run_while(\$job_count);
And finally, the last of POE's documentation has been rewritten. This
release contains all-new first-draft quality docs, with TODOs, errors
and omissions. You're all invited to be my editors. Please submit
doc problems, questions, confusions, or anything you don't like or
understand to [email protected]. I can't promise to make everything
perfect for everyone. If I can't (or won't) take your suggestion, I'll
at least tell you why.
Thanks, everyone!
--
Rocco Caputo - [email protected]
