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diff --git a/libraries/cppzmq/README b/libraries/cppzmq/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..510b5a4abd --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/cppzmq/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +cppzmq is a C++ binding for libzmq. It has the following design goals: + +* cppzmq maps the libzmq C API to C++ concepts. In particular: + - it is type-safe (the libzmq C API exposes various class-like + concepts as void*) + - it provides exception-based error handling (the libzmq C API + provides errno-based error handling) + - it provides RAII-style classes that automate resource management + (the libzmq C API requires the user to take care to free resources + explicitly) +* cppzmq is a light-weight, header-only binding. You only need to + include the header file zmq.hpp (and maybe zmq_addon.hpp) to use it. +* zmq.hpp is meant to contain direct mappings of the abstractions + provided by the libzmq C API, while zmq_addon.hpp provides additional + higher-level abstractions. + |