[zeromq-dev] Question about ZMQ_PAIR

[Pieter Hintjens]

You can follow the guidelines in Ch6, also as described here:
http://zeromq.org/docs:contributing.



On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Diego Fons <diego.fons at intraway.com> wrote:
> OK, I'd like to... But first I must ask about the procedure. Should I post
> an issue on GitHub? Should I create and submit a patch? Should I follow the
> guidelines stated in Chapter 6 of the guide [1]?
>
> Sorry if I'm asking a lot of questions, but if I'm going to do this, I want
> to do it right...
>
> Regards.
>
> [1] http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#A-Real-Life-Example
>
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
>>
>> True, we do not have the concept of "experimental" any longer in
>> ZeroMQ and this text should be changed. PAIR sockets are used in
>> production and therefore are a stable part of the API. Do you want to
>> make a PR to change this? (What remains accurate is that they're
>> incomplete and should only be used for inproc work).
>>
>> ((Perhaps someone will one day make a patch reimplementing PAIR as a
>> special case of DEALER, that should be simple and end this fuzziness))
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Diego Fons <diego.fons at intraway.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I was reading the man pages for zmq_socket in order to read about
>> > ZMQ_PAIR
>> > socket type and I found this note:
>> >
>> > "ZMQ_PAIR sockets are designed for inter-thread communication across the
>> > zmq_inproc(7) transport and do not implement functionality such as
>> > auto-reconnection. ZMQ_PAIR sockets are considered experimental and may
>> > have
>> > other missing or broken aspects."
>> >
>> > The last paragraph makes some noise to me...
>> > Is this correct or it is just a legacy warning from older releases? I'm
>> > using ZeroMQ 4.0.4.
>> >
>> > Regards.
>> >
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