Libevent support

[maxim-ky]

Hello, guys!

Do you plan to support libevent-based async engine? It would be very nice, because libevent is as popular as libev or libuv.
Now I use that one http://www.aerospike.com/docs/client/libevent/ , but it's closed-source and it looks a little bit outdated/frozen.

Regards

[BrianNichols]

libevent is under consideration. No decision has been made yet.

[maxim-ky]

Thank you for the information.
Is there some way to know your future decision? It would be perfect to have some kind of notification :)

[BrianNichols]

We will announce the decision in this thread.

[maxim-ky]

Thank you!

[maxim-ky]

Hi guys,

Here is a patch to support libevent #50
That one is based on the libev-related code and it seems to be working ok, at least all the tests are okay.

UPD
It appears that some of continuous-integration tests are broken.

The command "make EVENT_LIB=libev test" exited with 2.

Could it possibly be my fault?

[BrianNichols]

No, it's not your fault. The remote libev library was moved and install_libev needs to be changed to reflect that. It will be fixed in the next release.

There hasn't been movement on libevent support in the past because libev is considered a superior framework and customers would be better served by using libev. There is, however, legacy reasons for maybe using libevent. In that view, we will review your pull request for inclusion into the C client.

We are currently busy with other projects, so official libevent support will not happen immediately.

[ramrengaswamy]

@BrianNichols Any sense of when the official libevent support will be released ?

[BrianNichols]

We plan to release the C client this week.

[BrianNichols]

C client 4.1.3 has been released with libevent support.