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 ?
Thanks Gilad > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-libevent-us...@freehaven.net [mailto:owner-libevent- > us...@freehaven.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 > <gi...@altornetworks.com> 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 > libevent to > > 2.0 > > The question is should we ? > > > > What are the major benefits of 2.0 ? > > Hi, Gilad! > > I just updated the "what's new in Libevent 2.0" document. You can see > the latest version here: > http://levent.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=levent/levent;a=blob > _plain;f=whatsnew-2.0.txt;hb=HEAD > . It's still not complete, but it could be a good place to start. > > You can also peruse the draft book-in-progress at > http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/ ; APIs that are new in > 2.0.x are noted throughout. > > Generally, Libevent 2.0 has better designed APIs (while retaining > backwards compatibility), better thread-safety, better portability, > better windows support, some key performance improvements, and > numerous new features. It's (I think) easier to use, easier to debug > with, more tested, and generally better written throughout. > > Another reason to consider upgrading is that once Libevent 2.0 has > been stable for a while, we're not going to backport bugfixes to 1.4 > unless they are truly critically important. > > If you have more specific questions not answered in the documents > above, please don't hesitate to ask here. > > yrs, > -- > Nick > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with > unsubscribe libevent-users in the body. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
