JP, On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:18:01AM -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: > Is there any reason not to prefer bonjour over howl now? Apple has > re-licensed the client portions of the library under BSD like howl and > almost certainly bonjour will be better tested. > > Initial patches that support both from hpj: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312953 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311882
For those who don't know, I'm one of a few people behind Avahi, if you haven't read about the project you can go here http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi I had planned to help move GNOME over to Avahi during the 2.14 release cycle, the following applications already work with Avahi - GnomeMeeting (patch) - Vino (patch) - Rhythmbox (cvs) And gnome-vfs is being looked at, the reason I think the project should use avahi is because its clean LGPL, no iff or buts or any problems in that regard. It's being actively developed by a number of us and has bindings to python and c#, and can integrate with glib/gtk applications easily by directly using the mainloop (no threads or anything else) It is also possible to use it for all of KDE now as Jakub Steiner has ported his DNSSD API in KDE to it. We're very close to getting it feature, API, ABI stable, and the changes so far have only been minor and I plan to get support for most major BSDs in the near future. What problems do people see in this regard? If people really want an abstraction layer, then I think a good start will be the stuff davyd madeley has done on making a "GServiceBrowser" (and obviously other friends later) which I would think could be easily ported to use other APIs (this work is a GObject based API, which would be great for GNOME applications) Cheers, Trent > > -JP > -- > JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Novell, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Trent Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bur.st Networking Inc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list