Re: DO broadcast

[Chris B. Vetter]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:24:50 +0200
Tobias <ibotty@web.de> wrote:
> > I just finished implementing AF_INET6 and AF_LINK (though more or
> > less untested). Next I plan on implementing asynchronous usage and
> > MCAST on top of that (the idea is having sth similar to CFSocket).
> > That should be enough for looking into implementing sth similar to
> > Rendezvous.
> this is great.
> so i will discard most of my (preliminary/buggy/not working patches),
> and see how (and if) i can integrate them.
> is it in cvs? (i have not updated for a while now. 

Yes, it is available from CVS, but it is not part of GNUstep.

> btw: imho, we should track zeroconf as close as possible. thus
> implement rendezvous, not something similar to it.

Don't take "sth like Rendezvous" too literally. I just want to avoid any
conflict with Apple Legal. Having a ZeroConf implementation for GNUstep
and also call it "Rendezvous" will probably get us into trouble.

> i know that this is going to be a matter of change till a rfc is
> posted, but i guess it is worth it.

Yes, I agree. That's the idea.

-- 
Chris