[zeromq-dev] Removal of zmq_device[3] from 3.0

Pieter Hintjens ph at imatix.com
Sat Apr 9 11:01:55 CEST 2011


Martin,

Am I right to understand that zmq_device[3] has gone from 3.0?

This wasn't on the roadmap, and wasn't discussed anywhere, and does
break production code in a fatal way, i.e. it's not just a matter of
changing an API, a layer that people used has actually disappeared.

Not that it's a bad idea, but don't you think it's better to discuss
such changes up-front?

Presumably if a C++ device loop is no longer available in libzmq, many
people will have to reimplement that in slower languages. I'm happy to
add this functionality to libzapi but that's not meant to support
other languages.

-Pieter



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