[zeromq-dev] CZMQ old v2 API proposal: deprecated -> retired

Doron Somech somdoron at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 09:07:03 CET 2016


Seems like a good idea.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Patrik VV. <paddor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I love this proposal! 😍
>
>> On 28 Oct 2016, at 19:56, Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Since we are hopefully close to release libzmq 4.2, I checked what's the
>> API/ABI status in CZMQ master vs 3.0.2. There are a _lot_ of ABI
>> breakages, and a couple of API too.
>>
>> Given it's been now 2 years and 2 weeks since 3.0.0 was released and the
>> v2 APIs were declared DEPRECATED
>> ( https://github.com/zeromq/czmq#toc3-8224 ), I hereby propose to
>> declare them RETIRED as per C4.1 process and remove them from the
>> repository.
>>
>> I thought it would have been nice to do a bugfix release first, but
>> API/ABI is already broken and it would be too much pain to revert all
>> those changes and then put them back on.
>>
>> This way we bump to major version 4.0.0 and break ABI all in one fell
>> swoop, and minimise disruption.
>>
>> Comments, objections?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Luca Boccassi
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