[zeromq-dev] Moving to 0MQ/3.0, yes or no?

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Martin Lucina <mato at kotelna.sk> wrote:

> Interesting discussion in this thread. I'd like to put up my hand for not
> throwing out work that has been done, but instead improving communication
> with our users so that what we arrive at with OMQ/3.0 can really be a
> stable API that will last for many years.

+1

> After all, 3.0 *is* a major version change. We can explicitly break things,
> as long as we don't remove functionality people are using without providing
> alternatives, and as long as the breakage has been clearly justified.

Including things like a new wire level protocol that can be done
properly, make 0MQ robust enough to be used in the wild, and allow
competitive stacks.

> Brian, I especially like your analogy with LEGO bricks. This is really what
> I think ZeroMQ is about -- being the LEGO with which people can build all
> kinds of weird and wonderful distributed applications that those of us who
> built the tool didn't even think of.

+1.

-Pieter