Re: [PATCH] Avahi support for gnome-games

["Daniel S. Haischt" <me daniel stefan haischt name>]

Hello,

Callum McKenzie schrieb:
>>
> 
> Could you please place the patch in bugzilla. I'm very interested in
> Avahi support, but it will have to wait for the next release cycle (only
> about a month). At the moment people who want Avahi support have to rely
> on Avahi emulation of libhowl's API. I'm not actually sure this works,
> but I have been informed that in theory it should.
> 

At the time I am doing some final testing. If I am sure it works,
I'll place the patch in bugzilla.

Right now I still have an issue where the client wants to connect
to a server game using a server name that was announced via
Zeroconf. If I want to connect, I am getting a localized message,
stating that the service is unavailable.

The server is there and the service is announced via Zeroconf. And
I don't think the localized message is something I did program.

I did test gnome-games against the Avahi compat layer (both, Apple's
Bonjour API and the Howl API). Clearly - it did not work out.

>>
> 
> The quick answer to these questions is it was what the author of the
> code (Andreas Røsdal - I don't think he's subscribed to this list)
> thought was best. Changing names is a little tricky since we want some
> sort of backwards compatibility. However, I am definitely open to
> suggestions and arguments about what is best since the networking code
> needs to be revisited soon to make it both more usable and secure. 
> 

The point is that anybody asks me why I am prepending the port to
the service type if Zeroconf is already announcing the port
anyway.

I then have to explain, that it was not my idea and that I am just
doing it the same way to do not break anything.

So I and most people pn #avahi think that prepending the port to
the service type is plain wrong

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