Well, you're right. There must be a good reason for such an undertaking. I too feel that C++11 itself is not good enough reason. Anyway there has to be enough people willing to contribute to it.
I was just saying this because no idea should be discarded right away, but for sure there needs to be a valid need and reason for it. Greetings. 2017-05-17 16:15 GMT+02:00 Doron Somech <[email protected]>: > What will be the benefit from moving to C++11? And more important what is > the benefit from having two projects? one supporting C++11 and one not? > > I think that maintaining two repositories is hard and not sure for what > cause? > > Anyway, if some one want to do it, in the zeromq philosophy, please fork > and add the project to the zeromq organization. > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > On May 17, 2017, at 7:56 AM, BJovke . <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hello. >> > >> > Libzmq is not even fully C++ compliant: >> > - There's no exception handling. >> > - There are no RAII principles implemented. >> > - Parent/child object hierarchy is loose or not implemented, all of >> the burden of proper order of calls is on programmer. >> > >> > And so on... >> > >> > C++11 is really a remarkable feat of engineering and me personally like >> to see fully C++11 implemented software. >> > Unfortunately, for libzmq this would require substantial rewrite of the >> library. >> > >> > Maybe there's an option to create another parallel branch to existing >> libzmq or even create another product, for example "libzmq11"? >> > On the wire this could be 100% compatible with non-C++11 libzmq but >> there would be 0% chance to compile older projects with it. >> >> This is a good time to bring out some old blog posts. Martin Sustrik was >> the original developer of libzmq. He had some thoughts on why he should >> have written the library in C instead of C++. Here you go: >> >> http://250bpm.com/blog:4 >> >> http://250bpm.com/blog:8 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > -- Jovan Bunjevački.
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