Re: Moving to *Avahi* over howl

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 23:43 +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 05:22:17PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 17:12 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > On Fri, 16.09.05 11:47, Davyd Madeley (davyd madeley id au) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 15:39 +1200, Callum McKenzie wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 3. So we can integrate it into the normal glib way of doing things
> > > > > (signals, gobjects, etc.) regardless of which implementation is used.
> > > > 
> > > > Once again (I really like tooting my own horn). I have started solving
> > > > this problem:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.livejournal.com/users/davyd/152749.html
> > > > 
> > > > Here is a sample API for doing service browsing:
> > > > http://oracle.bridgewayconsulting.com.au/~davyd/misc/main.c.html
> > > > 
> > > > This is still a Work in Progress.
> > > 
> > > Will this provide thread safety?
> > > 
> > > Will this work without GLib main loop? (And how will this look like?)
> > > 
> > > As it seems these two issues a would ease the writing of/be required by a gnome-vfs
> > > module. 
> > 
> > As long as gnome-vfs can use Avahi itself while not conflicting with the
> > app using GServiceBrowser there shouldn't be a problem. There is really
> > no need to make the gnome-vfs code use GServiceBrowser. 
> > 
> > I agree that for normal Gtk+ apps an api like GServiceBrowser is much
> > nicer. The question is in which library GServiceBrowser would be of
> > course.
> > 
> > By the way, does Avahi support unicast dns-sd?
> 
> Do you mean looking up dns-sd over normal dns? (wide-area dns-sd)
> 
> If so, not yet, i beleive lennart is plannin it for the next release.

Yeah, thats what i meant. Gnome-vfs has code using libresolv to do this
already.

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