Hi sorry if i missed th point or came too late. 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. http://groups.google.fr/groups?q=howl+apple+code&hl=fr&lr=&selm=cm02q7%24o4g%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1 Or are we talking about multi cast dns only ?
On the other side howl reused apple core (thus the licencing issue). But the project will replace it as soon as possible. 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. 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, 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. http://blog.subverted.net/index.php?p=362 On a network with mac os x services , those are available as is too. Then, there are only 31 rdepends but one of them is gnome-vfs . Gnome 2.6.9 is already heavily using it, from IM applications to music players, : http://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/2004_July18-July24.html http://elysium-project.sourceforge.net/epittance/ http://www.temme.net/sander/mod_zeroconf/ http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00862.html >From previously mentioned url: http://groups.google.fr/groups?q=howl+apple+code&hl=fr&lr=&selm=cm02q7%24o4g%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1 kde is moving to howl too. 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. What i found this fall was : - 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 - gnome 2.6.10 will/is using howl extensively Regarding debians, apple core won't be rewritten before sarge, there are no news about that since july. Regards Alban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
