[zeromq-dev] pyczmq and ctx.set_linger()

[Greg Ward]

On 17 January 2014, MinRK said:
> > Would it make sense for pyzmq to wrap CZMQ as well?
> 
> I don't think it would. Most of the things czmq adds to libzmq are more
> logically reimplemented in Python, rather than exposed by linking anothing
> library. The added C dependency would also be too much of a pain, given the
> minimal benefit it provides at the Python level.

For zctx, zsocket, zsockopt: yes. For zstr, zlist: even more so!

But for zcert, zauth: unclear. There's a fair amount of code in those
two CZMQ modules, it's security-critical code, and the way to do it
without CZMQ is not obvious. IOW, if you want secure authentication
with 0MQ 4 and Python, you pretty much need pyczmq. It would be nice
if I could do secure authentication with just pyzmq, without
reimplementing zcert.c and zauth.c.

       Greg