Hi everyone,
I am a bit confused about the available information on libzmq versions.
The page at api.zeromq.org says that we have:
- 4.2 (master)
- 4.1 (rc)
- 4.0 (stable)
- 3.2 (stable)
On the download page 4.0 is missing:
- a version-less master which "should be stable almost all the time" (4.2?)
- 4.1.4 ("stable")
- 3.2.5 ("legacy stable")
In libzmq, the NEWS file on master seems to be outdated (last update
in 2014). The doc folder in libzmq seems to be maintained but not in
sync with api.zeromq.org (I checked today and some changes from the
last commit in that folder are not present on the site).
There are also maintained stabilization forks as per C4.1 for libzmq,
e.g. zeromq4-x (which contains 4.0?), 4-1, and 3-x (which contains
3.2?).
And then there is this article: http://hintjens.com/blog:85 which
suggests in a very compelling way that software versions suck and to
ditch them altogether (yes I agree) but I can't find those SBOMs
anywhere so I assume that experiment did not went very far.
With all this, whats the current status on libzmq versioning?
Am I understanding right that:
- The libzmq repository is always the latest and greatest, and 4.2
looks like the last version I'll ever need™, its always stable and
follows the raw-draft-stable-deprecated process so its also always
backwards compatible.
- Stable releases are maintained for 3.2, 4.0, and 4.1 and sometimes
bugfixes get backported from 4.2.
- Release notes are only maintained for stable releases?
Is the outdated API site a bug or a feature? I am currently using the
text files in doc/ but I like to look at the fancy ZMQ logo when I
browse the API reference :-)
Cheers
Mario
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