libevent-2.0.21

[Chris Olin]

On 04/10/13 at 09:15am, Warren Young wrote:
> On 10/4/2013 09:07, Chris Olin wrote:
> >is there a process to have it brought into Cygwin so then all that I really
> >need to do is package tmux and send out an ITP?
> 
> You can adopt the libevent package yourself, which relieves Yaakov
> -- who maintains Cygwin Ports -- of the burden of maintaining it.
> 
> libevent is in Cygwin Ports to satisfy cyphertite, ocaml-libevent,
> and transmission.  So, before adopting it, think about whether you
> want to place yourself in a blocking position for those packages,
> too.  That is, if libevent needs some fix or update to allow those
> packages to continue working, you'll be pressured to fix it even
> though you do not need the fix yourself for tmux.

To clarify, that would that only apply if other packages dependent on
libevent are brought into Cygwin in the future, yes?