Re: Moving to *Avahi* over howl

[Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:29:37AM -0700, Alex Graveley wrote:
> Dude,
> 
> GServiceBrowser is a client-side wrapper only, right?  It does not cover 
> the service registration or advertising half of mDNS.  It will not help 

GServiceBrowser is only the first in a few objects davyd is creating, so
conceivably we would have a GServicePublisher, etc.

> me in implementing shared notes in Tomboy, which has been blocking only 
> on waiting for Gnome/distros to decide on the mDNS stack to use.

Avahi already has nice avahi support for CLI, using proper classes etc
;)

Trent

> We still need to "decide" on which mDNS implementation we are going to 
> use.  Or else start hauling ass in implementing and testing a full 
> abstraction layer, learning where the abstraction leaks, massaging it, 
> iterating a few times, etc etc...
> 
> -Alex
> 
> Davyd Madeley 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.
> >
> >--d
> >
> 
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>
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