Well, large changes can always be grown incrementally. If we try a plugin architecture there's no reason to try to replace what we have now with new code. It can grow alongside it, without risk, then if/when it's mature, we use it.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Lindley French <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it's a worthwhile goal. In fact, I think a lot of aspects of libzmq > which are currently hard-coded should be made more modular. There are two > issues: 1) It's a big task, as mentioned, and someone just has to do it. 2) > As a big task, it's also a big stability risk. There's a greater potential > to introduce bugs than there would be with smaller changes. > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Lyle Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> OK. Thanks for your feedback, Pieter. I think, then, that I will just do >> it the simple way. >> >> Regards, >> Lyle >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pieter Hintjens >> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:30 AM >> To: ZeroMQ development list >> Subject: Re: [zeromq-dev] Protocol Plugins >> >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Lyle Thompson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I guess nobody is interested in pluggable protocols. Thanks anyway. >> >> Making pluggable protocols in the core library is just a very hard thing. >> It would require some major redesigns. >> >> People have added transports, and it's doable. They're not pluggable >> though, in the sense we usually mean. >> >> I built a simple framework for pluggable protocols over inproc bridges, >> some years ago: https://github.com/hintjens/vtx. It didn't get much >> attention. >> >> -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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
