[bug #30427] Please port to native Avahi

[Yavor Doganov]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30427>

                 Summary: Please port to native Avahi
                 Project: GNUstep
            Submitted by: yavor
            Submitted on: Tue 13 Jul 2010 10:42:37 AM EEST
                Category: Base/Foundation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Change Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Debian plans to drop the Apple Bonjour compatibility library (
libavahi-compat-libdnssd) at some point, since only 3 packages depend on it --
gnustep-base being one of them.  Furthermore, it is poorly supported upstream;
as the Avahi documentation says:

"Please note that these compatibility layers are incomplete and generally a
waste of resources. We strongly encourage everyone to use our native APIs for
newly written programs and to port older programs to avahi-client!"

Is there a specific reason why NSNetServices uses dns_sd?  I may be able to
work on this, but would like to know in advance more details.  Is native avahi
support something desirable as a complete replacement of dns_sd, or it must be
conditionalized, keeping the old code?  Or is it a no-op?




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