[zeromq-dev] ZeroMQ and Boost

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Dhammika Pathirana<dhammika at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Indeed, we explicitly avoided a dependency on Boost from early on in
the project.  But here we're considering embedding 0MQ in Boost, not
the other way around.

If we used the Boost.Asio that would be optional, and probably only
for the purposes of embedding.

-Pieter