How about 'adaptor'? The various devices I've seen remind me a bit of something like that.
Thanks, Cem Karan On Sep 8, 2012, at 1:58 AM, Michel Pelletier wrote: > I agree with Brian, proxy doesn't feel any better to me. I'm not > saying device is a good name, but it argues against changing it unless > the new name is better. > > -Michel > > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:53 AM, MinRK <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ... but at least I can tell them to email Pieter :) >> >> :-) of course. >> >>> Yes, I would certainly do that. But deprecating names is not significantly >>> less painful than simply changing them, as people still have to update their >>> code in the exact same way, just not so abruptly. And they will rightfully >>> complain that they are getting nothing for their trouble. >> >> Well, we've had this discussion a few times... my view is that it's >> never too late to clear up confusing names. >> >> We forget the pain it took to learn 0MQ initially. Explaining it again >> from scratch, it's clear where we can improve things. >> >> "Device" is one of those concepts that always seemed harder to learn >> than it should have been. "Proxy" isn't an ideal name, but it does >> seem to cover most use cases, and should be much easier to grasp for >> new users. >> >> So what's the benefit of this change? >> >> My hope is that as "proxy" sticks better as a concept, people will >> actually invest in the built-in proxy, as they never did in devices. >> >> -Pieter >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
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