[zeromq-dev] Behavior of Labels, Identities, and Socket Types in 3.0

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at 250bpm.com> wrote:

> What it means is that the only thing that the guide would have to adapt to
> when moving to 3.0 is the API change. The 2.1-to-3.0 API change is mostly
> transparent to all the languages except for C and C++. Which in turn means
> only C and C++ examples in the guide would have to be updated.

I have to admit, this is an extremely attractive proposition and will
benefit existing applications enormously.

> Summary: By reverting to 2.1 like semantics we can make the transition of
> the guide to 3.0 much less complex and avoid the duplicate work when moving
> to labels in next major version.

You've convinced me. +1 to keeping ROUTER/REQ/REP compatibility in 3.0.

-Pieter