Is "event" extension still maintained? Or what about libevent 2?
| From: | Ruslan Osmanov | Date: | Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:24:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Is "event" extension still maintained? Or what about libevent 2? | ||
| Groups: | php.pecl.dev | ||
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Hi,
Is `event' PECL extension still maintained? I'm thinking of writing new one, since both
event' and libevent' don't support libevent 2.
I could contribute to libevent's code. But there is deprecated/changed API in libevent 2. Also, "libevent" isn't good name for extension(I know, "event" extension was already there...).
Thus, if `event' extension is no longer maintained, I'd like to use this name for a new extension. Or, maybe you would suggest another name. Ehm, "AnyEvent", "YAEvent"("yet another event" :), "events", "ooevent"("object-oriented event" [I'd like to make OO API])... :-/
So what's better:
- a new extension with different name(e.g. "OOEvent")
- fork libevent, make it compatible with libevent 2, add new functions,
request merge;
- fork libevent, make it compatible with libevent 2, add new functions,
request merge?
The main purpose is to add libevent 2 API support and some missing functions(e.g. ssl and http stuff).
P.S.
"event" shouldn't be in "Networking".
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Regards,
Ruslan Osmanov