Re: libevent (1.4.12-stable) -> external/bsd

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:28:47PM +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 02:04:06PM +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >    I notice that tls@ updated libevent to 1.4.11-stable earlier this year
> > > though within a couple of weeks 1.4.12-stable was released (heh :). I was
> > > looking at updating it and moving to external/bsd at the same time. I've
> > > not got up to installing and testing yet but see the work so far at:
> >
> > Why 1.4.12 instead of 2.x?
> 
> mostly because Neils' blog mentioned:
> 
>   "This is a bugfix-only release, and some of the bugs were kind of nasty.
>    I'd recommend that you upgrade, especially if you are writing code that
>    uses epoll or evdns"

Didn't I already pick up the only relevant 1.4.12 change by hand?

Thor