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Re: [Libevent-users] Proposal for libevent-2 to provide functions to hide event structure details



On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Pavel Pisa <ppisa4lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> please, consider addition of functions to allow access more fields
> of struct event a way ensuring compatibility with future libevent version.
> ...
> The rationale:
>  - hide event structure implementation/layout. Application using these
> functions instead of direct access can keep compatibility with future libevent
> versions.

+1

I for one would love to see libevent have a stable ABI, and that means no
more public structs.   (I had hoped they'd be gone with 2.0.)
- Dan
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