[zeromq-dev] ZMQ for transit project, and debian package

[Michael Frumin]

All,

Thanks for the encouragement, and for the info!

Mike


> All,
>
> Just an FYI, that ZeroMQ has been selected as the messaging bus for
> the back end of the NYC-wide expansion of http://bustime.mta.info/
> (http://bustime.mta.info/wiki/Technology), which is going to be
> completely open source.  It would have been fun to use it for the
> bus-to-server over-the-air comms, but alas.

Cool!

> One question I have though -- is there any sort of debian precompiled
> ZMQ package?  If not, curious, why not?  The contractor is developing
> some pretty rigorously scripted deployment for the whole system (using
> chef, onto AWS) and at this point the slowest step is the compiling of
> ZMQ on every machine...

I maintain the official Debian package, and 2.1.x is in Debian
testing/unstable, see http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libzmq1

3.0.x will be packaged once it's stable/when enough people ask for it.

AFAIK the Ubuntu package uses the Debian one as its upstream, but I'm not
sure how they do things these days.

Cheers,

-mato