[Libevent-users] [PATCH] Add autoconf/make functionality for --disable-dns, --disable-http, and --disable-bevents

[Nick Mathewson]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 02:00:38PM +0200, Chris Brody-GMail wrote:
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> Thank you guys for the attention to the issue. Small questions: 1.
> would the evbuffer & bufferevents still be part of the libevent-core,
> or something else? I am working on a C++ interface for this part.

I'm pretty sure that evbuffer and friends should stay in event-core,
for two reasons:

   * Unlike HTTP, RPC, and DNS, they're pretty protocol-neutral.

   * Like event_base, they can be optimized on different platforms in
     different ways.  (Windows, for instance, is begging for an IOCP
     implementation of bufferevents.  I've got one from a student that
     I want to merge into the next major revision or the one after
     that, time permitting.)

> 2. Could we give "extras" a slightly sexier name such as WWW or
> web-server? I do find this to be a valuable part as well, and I am
> planning to work on a C++ interface for the HTTP server part in the
> future.

It's not www only: it's http, dns, and rpc.  In the future, it might
grow.

I'm going to go with the name Niels gave, since it lets me make the
changes sooner rather than later. :)


yrs,
-- 
Nick Mathewson
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