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



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