On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Matej Cepl <mc...@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 > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel 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 -- w
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