libevent-1.4.13 compatbility

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:06:55PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> 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?

Help upstream by converting forked-daapd to use libevent2.  I suspect
one of two things will happen:

- either you'll do this and your patches will be accepted upstream

- or you'll quickly discover what's so horrible about libevent2 (:-)

Rich.

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