[zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-07-18 Thread Pieter Hintjens
Hi all, A question to the list about release policies[1] and the 3.x development. Background: we are removing ZMQ_IDENTITY from the product, it's a necessary step to continuing to improve the product. (Incidentally, if you are using ZMQ_IDENTITY, let us know your use case). The current release p

Re: [zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-07-18 Thread Chuck Remes
On Jul 18, 2011, at 7:26 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > Hi all, > > A question to the list about release policies[1] and the 3.x development. > > Background: we are removing ZMQ_IDENTITY from the product, it's a > necessary step to continuing to improve the product. (Incidentally, if > you are usi

Re: [zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-07-18 Thread Marcus Cavanaugh
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > we are removing ZMQ_IDENTITY from the product, it's a > necessary step to continuing to improve the product. (Incidentally, if > you are using ZMQ_IDENTITY, let us know your use case). Our use case for ZMQ_IDENTITY is this: We have a few

Re: [zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-07-18 Thread Gregg Irwin
PH> Does people (and especially binding authors) prefer: PH> (a) starting a 4.0 version for this work (which means that 3.x will PH> stop when 3.0.x is mature) PH> (b) doing this work in 3.1, and changing the release policies to allow this. I don't have a strong investment in IDENTITY, but this h

Re: [zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-07-18 Thread Pieter Hintjens
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Marcus Cavanaugh wrote: > Our use case for ZMQ_IDENTITY is this: We have a few stateful backend > services that need to communicate with other servers. We need to direct > requests to specific services, so round-robin balancing doesn't work. (We > can't easily mak

Re: [zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-07-18 Thread Joshua Foster
I don't think the numbering actually matters (unless you really like the number 3). Numbering seems to be more of a marketing/political issue if it ever does matter. I suspect the topic of breaking backwards compatibility and how to handle it is more important. We will have this when we move fro

Re: [zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-07-18 Thread Daisuke Maki
>From my perspective, the bottom line is: "Just decide what you guys want to do and stick to it" Because that will be easier to explain in my docs for my users. So in that sense, while I don't care which way or the other engineering-wise, if you've already released 3.x with IDENTITY (whoops), I'd

Re: [zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-07-19 Thread Brian Granger
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > Hi all, > > A question to the list about release policies[1] and the 3.x development. > > Background: we are removing ZMQ_IDENTITY from the product, it's a > necessary step to continuing to improve the product. (Incidentally, if > you are u

Re: [zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-07-20 Thread Chuck Remes
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:52 PM, Brian Granger wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> A question to the list about release policies[1] and the 3.x development. >> >> Background: we are removing ZMQ_IDENTITY from the product, it's a >> necessary step to co

Re: [zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-07-20 Thread MinRK
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 01:42, Chuck Remes wrote: > On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:52 PM, Brian Granger wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> A question to the list about release policies[1] and the 3.x development. >>> >>> Background: we are removing ZMQ

Re: [zeromq-dev] Question: release policies and v3.x

2011-09-17 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 07/20/2011 10:42 AM, Chuck Remes wrote: > Now, what I am about to say may be completely wrong. As I've followed > this issue over the last several weeks, I have always thought the > problem that Martin had with ZMQ_IDENTITY was the ability to set a > *custom* identity. Using a byte array of arb