On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Anibal Monsalve Salazar <ani...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 04:05:55PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: >> Severity: normal >> Package: libevent-1.4-2 >> >> Please add the patch so that we can begin to build hiphop: >> >> https://raw.github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/master/src/third_party/libevent-1.4.13.fb-changes.diff >> https://raw.github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/master/src/third_party/libevent-1.4.14.fb-changes.diff >> >> Thanks. > > Thank you for the pointers to the patches. > > Are the patches merged upstream?
No; I don't think I've seen these before. Also, there is no new development happening on Libevent 1.4.x. The stable release series is 2.0.x; new features are being added to 2.1.x. I would only do a new Libevent 1.4 release in the event that a critical security bug were found. I would definitely not accept patches into Libevent 1.4 to implement new features! Looking at the patches, they seem to divide into two broad areas: * Disabling the "timeval cache" feature in the main event loop... by commenting it out. This is already doable in Libevent 2.0 using a run-time configuration option that turns it off on a per-program basis. Look at the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NO_CACHE_TIME option. There's also been a thread on the libevent-users list about future directions in this area; see http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Aug-2011/msg00011.html and subsequent comments for possible directions. * Adding some new features to evhttp. Some of it looks interesting and possibly generally of general utility, and getting a patch for inclusion into Libevent 2.1 there would be grand; some of it looks like stuff that you can already do in Libevent 2.0 and later with other interfaces. (See for example evhttp_bind_listener.) cheers, -- Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
