On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:22:56PM -0500, William Hooper wrote: > Mike Fedyk said: > [snip] > >why VNC has > > at > > least five seperate open source projects. > > Why not? Each project is generally focusing on a different thing. > > > There seems to be some interest in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to merge the code with > > RealVNC, but there were concerns that since [EMAIL PROTECTED] is Win32 focused that > > it wouldn't be accepted by RealVNC. > > Probably a fair statement. One of RealVNC's core values is that it is > cross-platform. >
RealVNC-win32 already has "service" support, and a different installer, than unix. Unix has an Xserver in their VNC server (which you're working on splitting out to make a plugin for Xfree86), so there is already infrastructure to have platform specific code and features. How is this any different than having a couple developers working on windows specific code? > > I don't really have the skills to merge the two together, but I'd love to > > see the NTLM support in RealVNC, and not have to switch to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get > > it. > > Quoting the RealVNC v4 docs: > "The Authentication page allows you to configure the required level of > authentication of incoming VNC Viewer connections. At present, only two > levels are provided - no authentication or classic VNC authentication. > Some new authentication methods are in development, so expect this page to > grow." So why reinvent the wheel? Why not just drill the hole so it'll fit your cart? Ultra already has the NTLM code written and working, and with Stephan's NTLM library, it can be cross platform. The file transfter feature is interesting, but I don't know why they didn't just use a http library. It has all of the features (except for rename) that they want to add... You have platform specific code to poll the GUI in win32 now anyway, why not add the enhancements Ultr@ have made? It's really just bringing win32 support closer to Unix anyway. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
