On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:03 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we're on the same page here. For 9.1, what's the *least* work > we can do to get *something* done on the printing front?
Fantastic! > Once the > basics are out there, hopefully we'll have community motivated to take > it "the rest of the way", whatever that is. Hmmm, this needs a serious think and a design. It's not an incremental step-at-a-time progress thing that we can expect the community naturally take on. Strong design-and-code leads emerge less frequently, and this is an important aspect of getting this feature to work well. OTOH, would love to see someone prepared to prove me wrong :-) On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:57 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can's mdns/avahi help with discovery? it'd be a shame to have to > manually configure a server address or name. I definitely want to have a service announcement scheme for the XO to discover: - what services are offered in the network - by which server - some additional arbitrary metadata (version, supported extensions for example) - reasonably scalable - chatty stuff squandering network resources is something we cannot have - optionally non-trivially-spoofable (not sure if this is reasonable to expect) in short, something a notch or two up from hardcoding "local" dns names. Douglas has been looking into mdns/avahi (for the activity installer control panel) -- and from what he saw in the initial review I'm not 200% convinced. By which I mean I want to review it a bit more, perhaps it's indeed the best scheme, but it sure looked chatty. So I guess that's one proposal for this 9.1 series. The printing proposal would then use this service (or DNS if we fail to deliver!).The XS side needs a fully fledged automagically configuring cups setup which is not entirely trivial. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar