[zeromq-dev] Comments on ZRE

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:

> Perhaps a zbeacon class in CZMQ? Then other languages can reimplement
> it (like zloop in JZMQ), or wrap it (as Perl-ZMQ wraps CZMQ).

OK, done. The pull request is waiting for the CZMQ maintainers to merge it.

https://github.com/hintjens/czmq/commit/4c4bc96da659f400d7adf14af29ea7543b795013

The zbeacon class does opaque beaconing, and I've updated Zyre to use it.

Still to do: fully document it, and also propose a new discovery
protocol that supports both ZRE and your more general use cases.

-Pieter