inline/libevent — Issue #1: Consider another name to avoid confusion?
Author: nmathewson
Created: 2011-11-03 13:12:13+00:00
State: open

Hi!

There's already another project out there called libevent -- see libevent.org. It's used by some fairly well-known projects, like Tor, Chromium, Memcached, Transmission, and so on. It's been around since 2000 or so.

You might want to consider giving this project another name:
* In order to keep people from confusing your library with the older libevent.
* In order to prevent problems when people install both libraries on the same host. (Having two "/usr/lib/libevent.a"s is not well-supported on most places.)

Of course, it is your decision!

sincerely yrs,
- Nick