Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm orphaning the ivykis library, primarily used by syslog-ng. I don't use neither syslog-ng, nor ivykis anymore, and lack the time and energy to maintain it properly. The latest packaging is on Alioth at collab-maint/ivykis, but I lost bits and pieces of the puzzle to properly create a package from that. I seem to recall I was using gitpkg, but I forgot how, over the years. Whoever takes the package on, may have to do some digging, I'm afraid.
Upstream is friendly and responsive, and there has been little movement in development over the recent years. There is a new upstream version that should be packaged, however. The package description, for reference, is just below: Description: Asynchronous I/O readiness notification library The ivykis library is a thin, portable wrapper around OS-provided mechanisms such as epoll(4), kqueue(2) and poll(2). It was mainly designed for building high-performance network applications, but can be used in any event-driver application that uses pollable file descriptors as its event sources. . Programs written to the ivykis API are generally single-threaded (or use only a small number of threads), and never block on I/O. All input and output is done in a nonblocking fashion, with I/O readiness notification delivered via callback functions. -- |8]
