[zeromq-dev] Feedback on new PATCH socket

[Martin Sustrik]

On 05/07/2011 12:09 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:

> Martin, you tend to disparage anything you don't like or understand as
> "a hack" or "confusion". There is really no confusion *between* XREP
> and ROUTER except perhaps in your mind.

The two patterns (routing vs. req/rep) are semantically different. So 
far I've artificially kept the implementation in such state that single 
socket type can be used for both. It had to be done in 2.x series to 
keep the backwards compatibility.

However, this can't hold forever. Check issue 190, for example. Once 
it's fixed, the router pattern will break. At that point there won't be 
any other way out that explicitly separating the patterns.

Martin