Re: Moving to bonjour over howl

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

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 �9:59 -0400, JP Rosevear a �it :
> > > 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.
> > 
> > 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.

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