Re: [Libevent-users] To upgrade or not to upgrade - that is the question

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Layne
On Aug 19, 2010, at 1338 PT, Nicholas Marriott wrote: I haven't done much with 2.x, but personally a two way core/extra split seems just fine. IMO splitting things into a twenty pieces or adding a dozen --disable-foo options just makes things confusing and hard work for developers, packagers an

Re: [Libevent-users] To upgrade or not to upgrade - that is the question

2010-08-19 Thread Nicholas Marriott
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:05:32PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:27:47PM -0700, Gilad Benjamini wrote: > >> > >> What are the major benefits of 2.0 ? > > > > From my point of view, a lot of convenience code

Re: [Libevent-users] To upgrade or not to upgrade - that is the question

2010-08-19 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:27:47PM -0700, Gilad Benjamini wrote: >> >> What are the major benefits of 2.0 ? > > From my point of view, a lot of convenience code was added which many > large programs already written to the libevent 1.4 A

Re: [Libevent-users] To upgrade or not to upgrade - that is the question

2010-08-11 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Gilad Benjamini wrote: > Nick, > Thanks for the answer and the detailed document. > Out of the different open source projects out there using libevent, which > ones have already moved to 2.0 ? Tor supports some but not all of the new 2.0 stuff, and will move to us

Re: [Libevent-users] To upgrade or not to upgrade - that is the question

2010-08-11 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:27:47PM -0700, Gilad Benjamini wrote: > > What are the major benefits of 2.0 ? >From my point of view, a lot of convenience code was added which many large programs already written to the libevent 1.4 APIs would already have, some APIs were cleaned up, and the library w

RE: [Libevent-users] To upgrade or not to upgrade - that is the question

2010-08-10 Thread Gilad Benjamini
n.net] On Behalf Of Nick Mathewson > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:14 PM > To: libevent-us...@freehaven.net > Subject: Re: [Libevent-users] To upgrade or not to upgrade - that is > the question > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Gilad Benjamini > wrote: > > We

Re: [Libevent-users] To upgrade or not to upgrade - that is the question

2010-08-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Gilad Benjamini wrote: > We have working Linux application using libevent 1.4 > We are now beginning work on a new version, which would include, among other > things porting our code to Windows. > > Theoretically, it looks like a good point in time to upgrade our l