Re: Moving to *Avahi* over howl

[Jono Bacon <jonobacon gmail com>]

On 9/16/05, Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de> wrote:
> I doubt this a good idea. Avahi's DBUS interface reflects what Avahi
> is capable of and is in no way a generic DNS-SD API. In fact, Avahi is
> more powerful than either Howl or the Bonjour in many
> respects. Writing a bridge to access Howl/Bonjour via that DBUS API
> would be exceptionally kludgy if not impossible.

This is a policy decision. If an abstraction layer was used to
abstract away any possible implementation of a technology, GNOME would
bloat to hell.

  Jono