[zeromq-dev] Perl zeromq news

[Pieter Hintjens]

Hi Klaus,

Nice stuff. If you like, you can make a page on the ZeroMQ.org wiki
with this, or perhaps add it to the existing Perl binding page.

-Pieter

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Klaus Ita <koki.eml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi fellow zeromqers!
>
> We at validad love zeromq, we at validad love perl!
>
> This is why we have created ZMQx::Class and still are the maintainers of it.
> We have multiple projects of different scale implemented with zeromq and
> every day we are implementing more wickedness. This called for an update on
> our side (nb. zmq4).
>
> Let me tell you about this week's updates on the Perl side of ZMQ:
>
> * ZMQx::Class
> This used to be based on ZMQ::LibZMQ3. Calid created a new wrapper for zmq4
> using FFI. As a result lestrrat announced he would not implement any newer
> libZMQx versions and encouraged everyone to switch to the FFI lib.
> So we created an ffi branch on github which you might want to try out.
> The API of ZMQx::Class has not changed, it's a drop in replacement if you
> switch to the ffi version (of course you need different deps).
> I still believe this module makes the hard things easy and especially for
> forked environments (any webserver ;) ) there is really no better
> maintainable option.
> - https://github.com/domm/ZMQx-Class/tree/ffi
>
> * ZMQ::Constants ( very nice module by lestrrat)
> I still base our stuff on this. It is the best ZMQ::Constants module around
> for Perl, let me say this! ZMQ::FFI provides its own Constants module, but I
> will try to convince the ZMQ::FFI guys to actually switch to this more
> powerful module. Thank you lestrrat for merging so quickly!
> - https://github.com/klaus/p5-ZMQ
> - https://github.com/lestrrat/p5-ZMQ
>
> * ZMQ::FFI
> We have a pull request
> https://github.com/klaus/zmq-ffi/commit/e9414a2e9fe9320ce4fb758b830b1faf2aa43444
> for it on github. Let's hope it will be accepted quickly as this update also
> exposes and fixes a nasty bug that you would only see in ROUTER <> REQ
> setups where you actually need the [ $ident, '', $payload ] structure of the
> message. The bug is actually a FFI::Raw one, but the improvement /
> workaround makes the ZMQ::FFI module a little better, too (win-win)!
> - https://github.com/klaus/zmq-ffi
>
> * FFI::Raw
> Not really ZMQ related, just for completenes, check out at:
> https://github.com/ghedo/p5-FFI-Raw/pull/18
>
> That's a good week for 0mq / libzmq4 / me
>
> For any feedback on this, we are terribly thankful!
>
> map { $_++ } qw/lesterrat calid ghedo/;
>
> lg,k
>
> --
> Klaus Ita / Validad
>
> http://www.validad.com/
>
>
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