<quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > There are not much zeroconf implementations. Only two aims at > being free. The only alternative is : > http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi > The project is stalled for monthes.
I am in regular contact with the developer, and tracking its progress. > Also what s wrong with howl implementation of zeroconf ? I agree > that zeroconf itself may not be the best design and is by now way > undorsed by a ieee. Howl is not a fantastic implementation (see nifd, mDNSResponder problems). > When you are asking to remove howl to wait for a gpl implementation i > guess there is a misunderstanding. Howl is developped to reimplement apple > ASPL licenced version in GPL code. My bet is if they did not reimplmented > the last apple bits, Howl is not a GPL reimplementation of Apple's code. It was a direct copy of early versions, modified to work interoperate with other systems, with a new BSD-like client library. There was no intention of completely rewriting the mDNSResponder. > It is already usable under debian. libhowl is only required for > service to auto publish themselves. An administrator can publish > http, ftp, webdav service by hand even if the applications have > no howl code linked. It is the mDNSResponder license that is problematic, not the client library. > If you know of a better alternative, it may have been a good idea to let > gnome developpers know before they finished proting their plateform to > this library. gnome 2.6.9 is already in experimental. It may be a hard > work for the gnome debian team to patch every upstream releases removing > the howl bits. It won't be significantly difficult. I'm the GNOME release manager, in close communication with upstream and the Debian and Ubuntu GNOME teams. > - there is only a GPL zeroconf implementation maintained > It still have apple code but only in the server which is not > need by applications linking to the library > This code will be replaced asap There is no fully working GPL implementation. Howl is not GPL. > - gnome 2.6.10 will/is using howl extensively It is an optional dependency of gnome-vfs. It is not using Howl extensively. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia http://linux.conf.au/ "The Vines are the latest pretenders to the thrown." - Vines review by liv4now.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
