[zeromq-dev] ZeroMQ and Boost

[Dhammika Pathirana]

Hi Martin,

Appeal of ZMQ is its simplicity and lightweight design. But Boost is
complex and has lot of stuff. Dependency on Boost will be a deal
breaker.


regards,

Dhammika



On 7/31/09, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at fastmq.com> wrote:
> Pieter Hintjens wrote:
>  > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:18 PM, dhruva<dhruva at ymail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Some of you core developers can post to the Boost developers mailing list if they would take ZeroMQ as
>  >> part of Boost.
>  >
>  > So, I've posted the proposal to the Boost developers list and had some feedback.
>  >
>  > Dhruva: people seem confused as to what 0MQ is (too high level, too
>  > low level...) so it might be useful if as a user of both Boost and
>  > 0MQ, you say something about this.
>  >
>  > Regarding licensing, it seems quite clear.  We need to relicense the
>  > core of 0MQ, the part that would be packaged with Boost, under BSL.
>  >
>  > It seems that we'd need to use Boost.Asio in 0MQ, but this may be hard to do.
>
>
> There are 2 issues to take into account:
>
>  1. Is Boost.Asio just a thin wrapper over OS networking API or does it
>  do any additional processing (like thread synchronisation)? In the
>  latter case it would hurt 0MQ's performance.
>
>  2. Does Boost.Asio work well on exitic platforms, say OpenVMS?
>
>
>  Martin
>
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