Re: Moving to bonjour over howl

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:37 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le jeudi 15 septembre 2005 �4:30 +0100, Bastien Nocera a �it :
> > 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.

> 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.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.