libevent-1.4.13 compatbility

[William Lima]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to package forked-daapd and it depends on libevent 1.4.13.
> When asking forked-daapd's maintainer about the compatibility with
> libevent2, I've got this into reply:
>
>        libevent2 is not and will not be supported; you need to use
>        libevent 1.4.x.
>
> Which I guess means either I'd have to package libevent1 for Fedora
> (which seems to be PITA ... files have same names etc.), or patch
> forked-daapd to use libevent2 and maintain the patch.
>
> What's so horrible about libevent2 that the upstream author won't
> support it? Is it that difficult to make and maintain the patch for
> libevent2 compatiblity?
>
> Non-building experiemntal draft of the package is at
> http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/tmp/forked-daapd-0.14-0.fc15.src.rpm (you
> need also avl package from -testing to build it).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best,
>
> Matěj
>
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There's a lot of changes in libevent2, and currently all development focus
is under it. So 1.4 users shouldn't expect for updates.
Active projects should migrate to the new API.

http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/Ref0_meta.html

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