# nmathewson/libevent_obsolete

Nick's public libevent repository.  The official repository is at https://github.com/libevent/libevent . NO PRS HERE PLEASE

Repository: https://github.com/nmathewson/libevent_obsolete
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/libevent_obsolete
Homepage: http://libevent.org
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-10-19T06:21:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6075, "days_push": 1414, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1328, forks 548 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:23.723366+00:00)

## What it is
An obsolete mirror of Nick Mathewson's libevent repository; the official libevent project lives at github.com/libevent/libevent. Libevent is a C library providing a portable event loop for file descriptors, timeouts, and signals, plus buffered network I/O, DNS, HTTP, and a minimal RPC framework.

## Use cases
- build an event-driven network server in C
- portable event loop across epoll, kqueue, and select
- write an async HTTP server in C
- handle timers and signal callbacks in a single loop
- buffered socket I/O with SSL and rate limiting

## When to choose
- you need a mature, portable C event loop for network servers
- you want buffered I/O with SSL, DNS, and HTTP support in one library

## When to avoid
- you want to contribute code or open PRs - use the official libevent/libevent repository
- starting a new project where a higher-level async framework is available

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: concurrency, networking, http-server, rpc, caching
- domain: developer-tools, networking, backend, microservices
- platform: windows, bsd, cross-platform, c
- tags: event-loop, async-io, event-driven, obsolete-mirror, bufferevent, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- nmathewson/libevent_obsolete (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:23.723366+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:45:58.686385+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nmathewson/libevent_obsolete (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:23.723366+00:00, sha c0633fda0076)
  - homepage: http://libevent.org (fetched 2026-08-29T12:04:57.870177+00:00, sha e45ff750a3dc)
  - site_page: https://libevent.org/old-releases.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:04:57.879728+00:00, sha fe8ad9bacf6e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.