gonzalo diethelm wrote: >>> IMHO, this feature is not related to messaging itself. Thus, > exporting >>> such function to messaging API will only trash it, and 0MQ will end >>> being another AMQP. >> :-) That would be a terrible fate indeed... > > I thought of the same smiley here... ;-) > >> But indeed 0MQ is not intended to be a portability library. However a >> very thin portability library could be useful. We've used APR in some >> projects but it's not that thin. > > Exactly. UUIDs are (I believe) very common in messaging settings, and > are used to identify nodes, messages, etc. Having one way of generating > them, that works the same way across all bindings, would be useful, in > my opinion. > > Perhaps we could have zmq_util_XXX() functions and/or a zmq::util > namespace where UUID functions (as well as the timer and sleeping > functions, and perhaps the version function) are stashed.
Optionally, a separate zmqutils library... Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
