On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:27 AM, David Ripton <drip...@ripton.net> wrote:
> On 2009.01.09 23:06:46 -0500, V S P wrote:
>> What is ZeroConf? Can you please point me to the project page
>> (I searched for some but did not find something twisted/python
>> specific).
>
> ZeroConf is the generic protocol name, not a particular project. The
> most popular implementations are Bonjour and Avahi. Both are portable
> and open source. Macs ship with Bonjour. Avahi seems more popular on
> Linux.
>
> In theory, it's pretty easy to use Avahi from Python. Avahi is a C
> daemon that always runs and does all the network stuff. It shares
> information with other programs via DBus. Your Python program can
> interact with the information using dbus-python. dbus-python features
> an asynchronous interface that should work great with Twisted.
Coincidentally, I just wrote up a short article on my experiences
playing with Twisted and Bonjour (via pybonjour). You can read it
here:
http://www.indelible.org/ink/twisted-bonjour/
In short, it's quite easy to wrap pybonjour's file descriptor-like
interface in an IReadDescriptor object and add it to the reactor.
--
Jon Parise (jon of indelible.org) :: "Scientia potentia est"
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