[erlang-questions] 0MQ libraries

[Pieter Hintjens]

gen_zmq => zeromq/ezmq, now an official project of the ZeroMQ community.

https://github.com/zeromq/ezmq

Nice work by Andreas!

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Andreas Schultz <aschultz@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> gen_zmq is pure Erlang and talks to libzmq 2.0 implementations.
> Since newer limzmq versions are backward compatible, using it to
> talk to them should work.
>
> In case the gen_socket dependency worries you, that can easily be
> removed (only used for UNIX sockets). In fact I plan to remove that
> soonish.
>
> There is also rebar support pending in a review:
>
> https://github.com/RoadRunnr/gen_zmq/pull/1
>
> Andreas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Serge Aleynikov < serge@REDACTED >
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Just to add a piece of history - I was an author of the original driver-based
>> implementation of the Erlang ZMQ binding ( https://github.com/zeromq/erlzmq
>> ), which got more or less obsolete after Yurii Rashkovskii implemented his
>> NIF-based version ( https://github.com/zeromq/erlzmq2 ).
>>
>> Concerning your question, I haven't had a use for this project for a while,
>> but if there is anyone wishing to join the project and bring it up to date
>> that would be great. Though I agree that a pure-Erlang wire-level
>> implementation would be of greater interest.
>>
>> I'm only interested in the pure erlang solution. NIFs worry me. They break
>> the guarantees, they muck
>> up the scheduler and so on. They should only be used when you've tried very
>> very very vary hard
>> not to use them.
>>
>> In the problem I want to solve I don't expect communication to be a
>> bottleneck.
>>
>> I'd like a 100% correct Erlang reference implementation of 0MQ. This (if
>> done) might have the interesting
>> side effect that it could be used (say with quick check) test the
>> C-implementations of 0MQ.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> /Joe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Serge
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Joe Armstrong < erlang@REDACTED > wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Is anybody working on upgrading the 0MQ libraries for erlang to
>> the latest version of 0QM.
>>
>> /Joe
>>
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