On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 12:49, Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > As you might or might not be aware, we have been working hard for years > to complete the libzmq relicensing effort that Pieter started long ago, > from LGPL3+exceptions to standard MPL2: > > https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/2376 > > After a lot of work, we are down to only 3 grants missing, covering the > following: > > - tweetnacl integration as alternative to libsodium (relicensing > NACKed) > - zmq_proxy_steerable() (no answer) > - ZMQ_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX (no answer) > > We have been waiting for years, with many requests without responses > for the latter two, and it doesn't make sense to wait anymore. > > So with this PR the above functionality will simply be removed: > > https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/4554 > > I will merge it later today. > > Tweetnacl is really not a problem, it was always intended as a local- > only thing to facilitate zmq_curve development, which is long done. The > only supported production encryption implementation is libsodium, which > is available everywhere, so I do not intend to put tweetnacl > integration back. If anybody was using curve+tweetnacl in a production > setting, they were doing something _very_ wrong and need to stop asap > anyway. It's a footgun and it's best to be rid of it. > > The other two are more problematic, as they are public APIs. The PR > changes them to be empty stubs that return EOPNOTSUPP (so that ABI > doesn't change). But I will make at least an attempt to get a > reimplementation so: > > If you are able to, and you have NEVER LOOKED AT THE PREVIOUS > IMPLEMENTATIONS (I will require you to state this explicitly in the > commit messages), please consider helping out and reimplementing these > two APIs, based solely on the public documentation: > > http://api.zeromq.org/4-3:zmq-proxy-steerable > http://api.zeromq.org/4-3:zmq-setsockopt#:~:text=connection%2Doriented%20transports-,ZMQ_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX,-%3A%20Set%20maximum%20reconnection > > I cannot stress this enough, it must be a clean-room reimplementation > so no prior knowledge of the previous implementation details nor > looking at the previos implementation is allowed (hence why I cannot do > it myself). > > If you are able to help, please speak up. These are not difficult to > add, especially the socket option should be very straightforward. I > will of course be able to review and provide guidance. > > After merging the above PR I will complete the relicensing shortly > after, taking advantage of the switch to also use the standard SPDX > format in source files. The relicense grants will be moved to: > https://github.com/rlenferink/libzmq-relicense > for archival.
ZMQ_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX has been contributed back by Stéphane Valès (thanks!). Any takers for zmq_proxy_steerable() ? _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
