Re: [wxCode-users] wxAvahi & wxDNSSD

[William H. S. <whs...@ce...>]

Ishan,

Bonjour is also available for Linux, but I unfortunately do not have  
a Linux machine, so my code has not been tested.  The code appears to  
be working as expected on OS X and Windows, however.  wxDNSSD is  
missing documentation and a friendly build method; I've just been  
building it directly into my executable for the time being.

A wrapper would definitely be a good thing, but it shouldn't just be  
a wrapper on top of Avahi and Bonjour.  If there are any other  
discovery methods, they should also be taken into consideration  
(*cough* *cough* people near me *cough* *cough*).  I believe IPv6  
includes service discovery as well, so a wrapper API should take all  
of this into consideration.  If it doesn't, then it will simply be  
replaced as more back-ends are needed.

I have another project I'm working on at the moment.  It may or may  
not wind up being open-sourced in the long run, but it's likely to  
use wxDNSSD.  (That's code for "I'm really busy, so I may not be of  
much use, but I'm always around.")


Hank Schultz


ps.  I've CC'ed this to the wxCode mailing list so that anyone  
interested can offer input.

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Hank Schultz
Cedrus Corporation
http://www.cedrus.com/


On May 19, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Ishan Arora wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First of all I want to tell you that wxAvahi and wxDNSSD are great  
> contribution to zeroconf networking with wxWidgets, however Avahi  
> is only for Linux and OS X and not for windows. Apple's Bonjour  
> supports Windows and OS X, and as far as I know Avahi comes with a  
> binary emulating Bounjour on linux. I think these could be used to  
> make a cross-platform Zeroconf wrapper for wxWidgets. Frankly  
> speaking I really need it. I have a project that awaits a cross  
> platform DNS Service Discovery solution for wxWidgets. Since there  
> hasn't been much usable work on it so far, I want to make a wrapper  
> for cross-platform purpose. You also have a component in wxCode on  
> a similar topic. Would you like to help?
>
> Regards,
> Ishan Arora