I just thought I'd throw this idea out there... has anyone ever thought of changing jabberd to use libevent or GLib?
libevent is an event notification library that abstracts the APIs for poll, select, epoll, kqueue and maybe a few other things. I guess we would really only gain support for kqueue (the fast event polling mechanism used on FreeBSD (and other BSDs?)), since jabberd already has implementations for poll, select and epoll. And I guess we would lose support for wasync? It's probably not worth the effort, but if libevent existed when jabberd was first written it seems like someone could have saved themselves a good bit of time. And I'm always in favor of re-using shared libraries. I haven't used libevent, but it seems nice. You can find more information at http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ There's also libev, which does basically the same thing but is purportedly a tad bit faster. GLib is a C library with lots of random and useful functions. It provides lots of handy string manipulation functions, a generic linked list structure, a queue, a hash table that grows and shrinks automatically, base64 encoding/decoding (recently), etc. Again, we probably wouldn't gain a whole lot from it immediately, since jabberd has already been written with it's own implementations of a lot of this stuff, but I'm always in favor of re-using shared libraries. I've used GLib a lot and I love it. It's fantastic. You can see the documentation at http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/ Anyway, probably not something we want to dive into now. I mostly just wanted to make people aware of the existence of the two libraries. -Mark -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
