[zeromq-dev] Question about constness

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Sebastian Lauwers
<sebastian.lauwers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Checking the zeromq 3.2 RC [1], I see this still hasn't been
> applied---I don't know what the project's policy would be regarding
> "breaking" the 3.2 API after the first RC has been released.
> Constness is used a handful of times in zmq.h.

Breaking the C API is a bad idea, no matter what the version numbering.

I'd suggest leaving the C API as is, and improving the C++ API (in
https://github.com/zeromq/cppzmq).

-Pieter