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Bug#509225: ITP: tevent -- talloc-based event loop library



On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:53:47PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

>    Package name: tevent
>     Description: talloc-based event  loop library
> 
> tevent is a simple library that can handle the main event loop for an
> application. It supports three kinds of events: timed events, file
> descriptors becoming readable or writable and signals.
> 
> Talloc is used for memory management, both internally and for private
> data provided by users of the library.

It seems very similar to libevent and libev, both already in Debian. Is there
anything special about tevent using talloc? Is upstream aware of these other
projects? If possible, try to get them to work with each other to merge their
features and reduce the number of event loop libraries.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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