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rust-zmq is an out of date library and seemingly a dead project. This library relies on patches that have not been merged into rust-zmq, which is preventing it from being published on crates.io.

We can either:

1. Port rust-czmq to a new ZeroMQ binding that will accept and publish patches in a timely manner
2. Publish my rust-zmq fork on crates.io as a new project
3. Remove external dependencies completely, which will mean importing a small amount of code from rust-zmq that deals with z85 byte slices. It also means losing compatibility with rust-zmq sockets (i.e. everything must be a ZSock)

I don't know which way to go so if you're actually using this binding (and care!) then feel free to express an opinion. I'll leave this issue open for a few weeks to garner any feedback, then make a decision.

Full disclosure: I've started hacking a bit on zmq lately, so I have an agenda ;-).

I wonder how this crate should relate to zmq. My goal is to provide high-level, nearly-idiomatic bindings in zmq, without reducing expressivity compared to the libzmq C API. Both points still need work, obviously.

Given that "mission statement" of zmq, I'm not sure if having C binding to libczmq is the ideal way to achive a "czmq-like" API in Rust. Wouldn't layering it on top of zmq itself be a better solution, both in terms of safety (less tricky C binding unsafe code), and probably also overall effort?