Re: Platform

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Shaun McCance schrieb:
> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 22:39 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
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>> Shaun McCance schrieb:
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>>> Avahi -- Service discovery.  This is used in quite a few
>>> places.  I know some people in the past had talked about
>>> having a simple wrapper in GLib.  How much do we push it?
>>>
>>>       
>> Now that apple has closed the whole bonjour stack, I would prefer to build on
>> upnp. We have gupnp, which is actively developed and fitting nicely here.
>>     
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> Closed in what way?  Is UPnP any more open?  What do we have
> using Zeroconf right now?  What do we have using UPnP?  What
> things do we get to choose what to use, versus technologies
> that we just have to conform to?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software)
I hope that someone else can speak up too - I am not an expert here at
all. One thing that zeroconf and upnp have in common is service discovery.

Stefan

> And what are the chances that we could get a wrapper for
> either or both of these in GLib?
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> Shaun
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