On 22 Jan 2004, Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On the subject of the technical issues, though, is anyone > >>interested/willing/capable of forward-porting apple's changes to a > >>modern distcc? It would be definitely nice to have... > > > >Last time I looked, the Apple changes were pretty messy. I would like > >to see the general idea moved in though. For general use, I think you > >would need some kind of check that the gcc versions matched properly. > >I'm planning to add some checks in a future version. > > Yeah, they were rather messy. They seemed to be implementing some > architectural features that exist in later distcc's, in a much more ugly > manner. =) > > >You would also need to find a mDNS library under an appropriate (GPL, > >MIT, or weaker) licence. > > Apple's posix implementation of mDNS is available under the APSL 2. As > far as I can tell, it's got a bsd-ish advertising clause, and if you > make changes to their mDNSresponder and deploy them, you must release > those changes as APSL 2. There's no restrictions on other things > linking against it: > > 4. Larger Works. You may create a Larger Work by combining Covered > Code with other code not governed by the terms of this License and > distribute the Larger Work as a single product. In each such instance, > You must make sure the requirements of this License are fulfilled for > the Covered Code or any portion thereof. > > Whether that's enough or not I don't know, I don't recall exactly how > such things fall under linking and derivative works, but from my clearly > layman point of view, it seems like something that can be linked against > without issue.
According to the FSF, it can't be linked to GPL'd programs http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html At this point I am leaning toward supporting a plugin interface to get a host list. For example: DISTCC_HOSTS='!/usr/local/bin/find-distcc-hosts' Then we can have a nice mDNS-vs-SLIP cagematch to implement it. -- Martin
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