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

[Travis B. <tr...@be...>]

OK, great. Do you have OS X Tiger Server available?  There are hacks  
to circumvent the limitations, but officially, Xgrid now requires an  
OS X Server box as a controller. I have OS X Server, so I can do some  
tests, or perhaps just give you an account on the machine.

-Travis

On May 27, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Matthew W. Jones wrote:

> 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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