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On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 08:09:22 AM Brian Bockelman wrote: > I notice that this requires libevent 2.x. > > This is going to be highly problematic with downstream packagers as RHEL > ships libevent 1.4.x, and all the downstream packagers for RHEL platforms > (EMI, OSG, EPEL) have a policy in place to not ship software that is > already shipped by the OS. > > Mind you, the downstream packagers are quite creative folks and may be able > to come up with some work-around. However, you'll basically be constantly > fighting them over this until RHEL7 becomes widespread in, oh, 5-6 years. > > So - are the improvements from 1.4.x to 2.x worth 5-6 years of headaches? Well, yes. But we may drop the libevent requirement alltogether, because Andy offered to reimplement the poller using xrootd functions (which need some refactoring). Lukasz ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1