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Changelog
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tractor 0.1.0a1 (2021-08-01)
============================
Features
--------
- Updated our uni-directional streaming API (`#206
<https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/206>`) to require a context
manager style ``async Portal.stream_from(target) as stream:`` which
explicitly determines when to stop a stream in the calling (aka portal
opening) actor much like ``async_generator.aclosing()`` enforcement.
- Improved the ``multiprocessing`` backend sub-actor reaping (`#208
<https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/208>`) during actor nursery
exit, particularly during cancellation scenarios that previously might
result in hard to debug hangs.
- Added initial bi-directional streaming support in `#219
<https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/219>` with follow up debugger
improvements via `#220 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/220>`
using the new ``tractor.Context`` cross-actor task syncing system.
The debugger upgrades add an edge triggered last-in-tty-lock semaphore
which allows the root process for a tree to avoid clobbering children
who have queued to acquire the ``pdb`` repl by waiting to cancel
sub-actors until the lock is known to be released **and** has no
pending waiters.
Experiments and WIPs
--------------------
- Initial optional ``msgspec`` serialization support in `#214
<https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/214>` which should hopefully
land by next release.
- Improved "infect ``asyncio``" cross-loop task cancellation and error
propagation by vastly simplifying the approach. We may end up just
going with a use of ``anyio`` in the medium term to avoid re-doing
work done by that group cross-event-loop portals. See the
``infect_asyncio`` for details.
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- `Updated our readme <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/211>` to
include more (and better) `examples
<https://github.com/goodboy/tractor#run-a-func-in-a-process>` (with
matching multi-terminal process monitoring shell commands) as well as
added many more examples to the `repo set
<https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/tree/master/examples>`.
- Added a readme `"actors under the hood" section
<https://github.com/goodboy/tractor#under-the-hood>` in an effort to
guard against suggestions for changing the API away from ``trio``'s
*tasks-as-functions* style.
- Moved to using the `sphinx book theme
<https://sphinx-book-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html>`
though it needs some heavy tweaking and doesn't seem to show our logo
on rtd :(
Trivial/Internal Changes
------------------------
- Added a new ``TransportClosed`` internal exception/signal (`#215
<https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/215>` for catching TCP
channel gentle closes instead of silently falling through the message
handler loop via an async generator ``return```.
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- Dropped support for invoking sync functions (`#205
<https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/205>`) in other
actors/processes since you can always wrap a sync function from an
async one. Users can instead consider using ``trio-parallel`` which
is a project specifically geared for purely synchronous calls in
sub-processes.
- Deprecated our ``tractor.run()`` entrypoint `#197
<https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/197>`; the runtime is now
either started implicitly in first actor nursery use or via an
explicit call to ``tractor.open_root_actor()``. Full removal of
``tractor.run()`` will come by beta release.
tractor 0.1.0a0 (2021-02-28)
============================
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Summary
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- ``trio`` based process spawner (using ``subprocess``)
- initial multi-process debugging with ``pdb++``
- windows support using both ``trio`` and ``multiprocessing`` spawners
- "portal" api for cross-process, structured concurrent, (streaming) IPC