id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
13992	Examine whether libev can replace libevent	Pierre Labastie	Pierre Labastie	"Some curl tests seem to require '''nghttpx''', a proxy server, see ticket #13854.  This application is in the ''nghttp2'' package, which is in the book, but it is not built, because (i) we pass '''--enable-lib-only''' to configure, and (ii) one dependency ''libev'', is missing. On the [http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html libev] site, it is said that:
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[libev] can be used as a libevent replacement using its emulation API
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So the aim of this ticket is to determine whether this is true, and whether the packages dependant on ''libevent'' can still be built with ''libev'' (or better, whether ''libev'' can just be dropped in place of ''libevent'').

The users of ''libevent'' in the book are:
- ntp (optional)
- avahi (optional)
- nghttp2 (optional, but could be a mistake owing to above)
- links (recommended)
- mariadb (recommended)
- unbound (optional)
- qtwebengine (optional)
- firefox (recommended, used by libxul.so)
- seamonkey (recommended)
- thunderbird (recommended)
- transmission (required)"	task	closed	normal	10.1	BOOK	SVN	medium	invalid