Re: Platform

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Bastien Nocera schrieb:
> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 22:39 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
>   
>> Shaun McCance schrieb:
>>     
> <snip>
>   
>>> 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,
>>     
>
> Huh? Bonjour (or Rendezvous as it used to be called) was BSD licensed,
> but it doesn't matter to us as we have our own stack in Avahi.
>
> Citation needed here.
>   

See my previous email.
>   
>>  I would prefer to build on
>> upnp.
>>     
>
> UPNP is overly complicated for service discovery.
>
>   
>>  We have gupnp, which is actively developed and fitting nicely here.
>>     
>
> mDNS as a service discovery tool is much better than UPNP, and the tools
> are more mature.
>
> You might be confusing mDNS and service discovery with the protocols
> implemented on top of it. We want to use both UPNP and mDNS for
> interoperability purposes, but I don't see the point in re-coding mDNS
> applications to use UPNP instead

I just pointed to the legal situation. I know that those are two
different things and idealy we support them both as needed.

Stefan