RE: [Xgridagent-development] Tiger, use of howl

[Matthew W. J. <ma...@os...>]

I'm actually still using an old version of XGrid on Tiger (Doesn't work
as well either, it's still useable from the command line).  I'll give
the new XGrid a try this weekend.

I've noticed the issues with libHowl, I'm working on a replacement
implementation... I'll let you guys know when it's done.  Either way
1.0.3 will stay on LibHowl.

Mat

On 25-May-2005 Travis Beals wrote:
> I finally got my Xserve upgraded to Tiger, although it was hell  
> (somehow Tiger broke KDE on some of my BSD machines that NFS-mount  
> home directories from the xserve). Now, it seems that xgridagent  
> won't talk to the new controller. Matthew, are you running Tiger  
> Server successfully as a controller for a grid containing Xgridagent  
> agents? Daniel implied that this wouldn't work, and I'm inclined to  
> agree with him, although I may just have missed something. Does  
> anyone know how much work is involved in making xgridagent compatible  
> again?
> 
> As a minor consideration for future planning, it looks like there are  
> some license issues with Howl that indirectly affect us. Basically, a  
> number of linux distributions (Debian, for example) don't like the  
> patent clause in the APSL, and so won't include Howl. People can  
> always download and compile Howl themselves, but that's a bit  
> inconvenient.  See this email:
> 
> http://lists.porchdogsoft.com/pipermail/howl-users/2005-April/ 
> 000614.html
> 
> There are apparently other mDNS / ZeroConf implementations (e.g.  
> Avahi) either available or under development that do not have these  
> issues. Long-term, we should perhaps consider switching to one of  
> them. It doesn't seem that Avahi is quite ready for primetime yet,  
> though, so we should stick with Howl for now.
> 
> -Travis
> 
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Date: 27-May-2005
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