libevent is lacking a scalable backend on Windows. Let's leverage the wepoll
library until Windows comes up with an epoll/kqueue compete user mode API.
- All regress tests pass for standard wepoll
- These 2 tests fail intermittently for changelist wepoll, so disabling
changelist wepoll for now
http/cancel_inactive_server
http/stream_in
- verify target on Windows runs tests for both wepoll and win32 backends
- wepoll backend preferred over win32 backend
- wepoll version 1.5.6
v2: cleaner backend abstraction. Disallow wepoll on MinGW/Cygwin.
v3: Add wepoll.h to dist
v4: Make sure wepoll source files are excluded from cygwin/mingw builds
v5: Keep win32 as default backend on windows.
v6: Include wepoll in mingw builds. Verified that regress tests pass w/ WEPOLL backend.
v7: Enable wepoll on mingw when building with cmake
v8: Add wepoll testrunner for autotools test target
For what it's worth, we are aware that "Copyright $YEAR $NAME" is
sufficient notice of copyright on software under US law and
Internationally, and saying Copyright (c) $YEAR $NAME is a bit nutty.
The character sequence (c) has never been ruled to have the same force
in US law as the actual copyright symbol, and that neither of these
US-specific symbols adds anything of value beyond saying "Copyright"
since the Berne convention took effect in the US back in 1989.
Similarly, saying "all rights reserved" doesn't do anything magical
unless your software goes in a time-warp back to when the Buenos Aires
Convention was the general rule. (And what will they run it on back
then?) And what would even lead you to say "All Rights Reserved" when
you're explicitly granting most of those rights to anybody receiving
the work in accordance with the 3-clause BSD license?
But still the FOSS community retains these ritual notations out of a
kind of cargo-cult lawyering. Who knows? Perhaps one day, if we
write our copyright notices ineptly enough, John Frum will come and
give us a DFSG-compatible license that everybody can get behind.
(Also, I am not a lawyer. The above should not be taken as legal
advice. -- Nick)
