> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:07:46PM +0200, nusenu wrote: > > there seem to be a few people that would like to run tor with libevent > > 2.x (currently available via ports) but failed to build tor with > > libevent from ports. > > > > So I'm wondering whether there are any plans to ship any of the next > > two upcoming releases with libevent 2.x (instead of 1.4.x)? > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:18:22PM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > No we have pretty much settled on a (mildly forked) 1.4 now and there > are no plans to update the base system. > > I don't see why libevent 1.4 in base blocks anything that requires 2.x, > the port should coexist happily with base.
For what it's worth, the Libevent 2 port's organization is a little strange. It's split into a bunch of subarchives/subobjects. This makes building Tor with it a major headache (I haven't managed yet). However, that may be mostly due to Tor's brittle config logic.
