On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 10:50 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 16:06 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: > > Le jeudi 15 septembre 2005 à 09:59 -0400, JP Rosevear a écrit : > > > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:37 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: > > > > Le jeudi 15 septembre 2005 à 14:30 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > > > > > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:18 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: > > > > > > Is there any reason not to prefer bonjour over howl now? Apple has > > > > > > re-licensed the client portions of the library under BSD like howl > > > > > > and > > > > > > almost certainly bonjour will be better tested. > > > > > > > > > > > > Initial patches that support both from hpj: > > > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312953 > > > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311882 > > > > > > > > > > Is there any reasons to prefer Apple's Bonjour over Howl? The license > > > > > problems are the same in both implementations, and we can at least > > > > > have > > > > > some influence on Howl. See how well Apple works with the KDE > > > > > community. > > > > > Not really encouraging. > > > > > > > > I thought the plan was to use Avahi. > > > > > > I wasn't aware this was a definite thing. > > > > I don't think it was. But until recently, all other zeroconf > > implementation had licensing issue except Avahi. > > > > > > It would be very nice to use the same implementation as KDE, otherwise > > > > you end up with two implementation of Zeroconf on your system :( > > > > > > The internal KDE guys here are still preferring bonjour when I asked > > > them, although it does appear that avahi support is available upstream > > > in KDE. > > > > Well, unless I'm mistaken, KDE is using mDNSResponder by default. > > Yes, thats bonjour afaik.
Or Howl. The binaries have the same name, and the API and code isn't that far off either. --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me." - Brian Clough, on being remembered. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
