[opam-devel] [Caml-list] [ANN] IOCaml v0.3

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On 14 Feb 2014, at 11:12, Anders Fugmann <anders at fugmann.net> wrote:

> On 02/14/2014 11:49 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>> The too-new library is almost certainly the case -- although unfortunately I don't have the 3.2.4 version in my Homebrew anymore and so the switch doesn't work (they don't keep older versions around like OPAM does, I believe).
>> 
>> $ brew switch zmq 3.2.4
>> Error: zmq does not have a version "3.2.4" in the Cellar.
>> Versions available: 4.0.3
>> 
>> Are the interfaces very different between the versions to support both, or does this require a big rev to your bindings?
> I do not think that is feasible.
> 
> ZMQ 3.x.x and ZMQ 4.x.x has different wire formats, so they are not interchangeable. Also the header files have changed, so I assume that would not be possible to have a version that supports both (i.e. based on the C library installed).
> 
> We would at some point upgrade the binding to 4.x, but we don't have any concrete plans. That said I would guess that its not too far into the future.
> 
> However, it seems that its possible to install the zmq 3.2 though brew:
> 
> > brew tap homebrew/versions
> > brew install zeromq32

That works great!  I just had to add:

> brew link zeromq32

To get zmq.h into /usr/local, and then ocaml-zmq installs fine, as does iocaml.top afterwards.

cheers,
Anil